Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate… — Ellen Ochoa
The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a… — Alfred North Whitehead
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination. — William Arthur Ward
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one… — Unknown Author
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to… — Jeanette Winterson
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment. — Timothy Leary
Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose. — Herb Caen
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself… — Susan Sontag
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry… — Swami Vivekananda
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. — Jonas Salk
He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in… — Max Lerner
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love. — Lucretius
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. — John Keats
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. — George Henry Lewes
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,… — Thomas Paine

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