Discovery Quotes

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Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained… — Leonhard Euler
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge… — David Eugene Smith
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up… — George Eliot
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the… — David Mixner
I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to… — T.C. Boyle
One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on… — Tony Campolo
When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger… — Robert B. Laughlin
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more… — Jacques Loeb
Self-discovery means learning to live free! — Tae Yun Kim
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental… — Peter Agre
First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified,… — Margaret Heckler
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. — Paul Eldridge
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. — C L R James
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce
This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a… — Gideon Defoe
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most… — W.N.P. Barbellion
This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers. — Henry Taube
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. — Lukas Foss
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem… — William Kingdon Clifford
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill… — Iris Apfel
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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