Discovery Quotes
1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors
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Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
— George Iles
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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities.…
— John L'Heureux
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When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs…
— Don Berliner
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Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
— Timothy Keller
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Faith is the enemy of discovery.
— Simon Mawer
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Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles…
— Charles Babbage
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Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
— Pete Waterman
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Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the…
— Stanislav Grof
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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with…
— Viola Spolin
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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to…
— M. Scott Peck
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Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,…
— Fred Edwords
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When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.
— Larry Ellison
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I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and…
— Unknown Author
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From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They…
— Steven Levenkron
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Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to…
— Unknown Author
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Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan…
— Boyd K. Packer
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If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.
— Alfred Jarry
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I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was…
— Andre Agassi
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Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the…
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson…
— Christopher Darden
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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
— Alva Myrdal
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