Discovery Quotes

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — Alan Watts
The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us. — George Harrison
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme. — Howard Carter
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. — Benjamin Franklin
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star. — Leonardo da Vinci
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self. — George Washington Carver
The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" — Robert Ballard
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its… — Jean Piaget
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate… — Ellen Ochoa
The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a… — Alfred North Whitehead
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination. — William Arthur Ward
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one… — Unknown Author
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to… — Jeanette Winterson
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment. — Timothy Leary
Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose. — Herb Caen
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson

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