Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by… — Howard Whitley Eves
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. — Joseph Fourier
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world… — Margaret Bourke-White
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon… — Aaron Siskind
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established… — Jerry Uelsmann
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion. — Robert Adams
The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery… — Albert Einstein
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. — Seymour Papert
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has… — Gary Snyder
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help… — Murray Rothbard
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and… — Charles Dickens
Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist. — Clyde Kluckhohn
The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new… — Barack Obama
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like… — James H. Billington
When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem". — W. Edwards Deming
If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person… — Michel Leiris
To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a… — Ernst Cassirer
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will… — Alexander Graham Bell
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could… — John Kenneth Galbraith
These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion… — Pope Pius IX

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