Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

Humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality… — Bill Gates
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own,… — Emil Nolde
Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not… — Alexander Grothendieck
Discovery is for forward lookers. — T. B. Joshua
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround… — David Brin
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. — John McGahern
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and… — Octavio Paz
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to… — Unknown Author
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have… — Nikola Tesla
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery. — Cynthia Ozick
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different… — Pope John Paul II
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery. — Daniel Goleman
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. — Lord Kelvin
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance.… — Carl Jung
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion − not… — Paul Lockhart
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in… — John O'Donohue
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will.… — Winston Churchill
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery. — Louis Pasteur
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike. — Jacob Bronowski
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long,… — Robert Bloch

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