Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. — Arthur Helps
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a… — Luchino Visconti
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong… — Archibald MacLeish
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality. — Piet Mondrian
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a… — Hari Kunzru
Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within. — Ernest Holmes
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal… — Shel Silverstein
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. — William Stanley Jevons
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead.… — Stephen Covey
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not… — John A. Hannah
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. — Joyce Grenfell
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all… — Richard E. Berendzen
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. — Albert Einstein
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. — Jacob Bronowski
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler
When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it… — Wayne Teasdale
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by… — Margery Fish
Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover… — Gerald Lawson Sittser
This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it. — Henry Hudson
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato

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