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Discovery Quotes by Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most…
- ...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same…
- Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
- If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature…
- It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times…
- Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of…
More Discovery Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,… — Douglas Adams
- Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
- The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest… — Bob Beauprez
- For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
- Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but… — Alexander Graham Bell
- With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. — Paul Berg
- A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is… — John Berger