Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of my documents about… — David Duke
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that… — B.K.S. Iyengar
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance… — E. O. Wilson
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for… — E. O. Wilson
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment… — A. R. Ammons
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing… — Julian Schwinger
The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to… — Seneca the Younger
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into… — Alan Watts
The world is our school for spiritual discovery. — Paul Brunton
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place… — Albert Hofmann
When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it… — Wolfgang Ketterle
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their… — Paul Lockhart
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them… — Maria Montessori
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of… — Paulo Freire
Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years — Colum McCann
The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the… — Harold Innis
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. — George Polya
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices,… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even… — Paul Farmer
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. — Marguerite Yourcenar
Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all… — Robert Plant
The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness… — Vincent Bugliosi
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders. — Arthur Symons
I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances,… — Pico Iyer

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