Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten… — William Harvey
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — Unknown Author
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Unknown Author
A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every… — Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang… — Henry Margenau
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because… — Hans Selye
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes. — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but… — Robert Boyle
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. — George A. Sheehan
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never… — Dennis Wholey
The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was… — Francis Darwin
But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us. — Albert Einstein
Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John… — Wallace Stegner
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex… — Julia Cameron
The act of composition is a series of discoveries. — E L Doctorow
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons. — William Targ
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor

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