Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and… — Bartolome de las Casas
The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that. — Unknown Author
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major… — Edward R. Murrow
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it… — Benjamin Tucker
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. — Henri Poincare
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and… — Peter Medawar
The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between… — Bruce H. Lipton
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature,… — Unknown Author
The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models — Unknown Author
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds,… — Robert Aris Willmott
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror… — Thomas A. Edison
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the… — Thomas A. Edison
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its… — Mike Harding
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made — Homer
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery — Helen Hayes
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate,… — John F. Kennedy
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist — Ralph Waldo Emerson
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the… — Ambrose Bierce
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself — John Dewey
We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve. — Arthur Quiller-Couch
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. — Edward Mills Purcell
A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed. — Unknown Author
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can… — Mark Twain
Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness. — Laurence Freeman

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