Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers,… — Bill Nye
Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe -… — Lester Grinspoon
You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery. — Shahid Kapoor
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting. — Ross Bleckner
Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great… — Sogyal Rinpoche
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in… — Mark Twain
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as… — Mark Twain
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--? — Miles Davis
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a… — Bill Bryson
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. — Madeleine L'Engle
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most… — Richard P. Feynman
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one. — Thomas Leonard
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the… — Winston Churchill
A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison… — Thomas A. Edison
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led… — Rene Descartes
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so. — Publilius Syrus
Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew. — Malcolm Forbes
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession… — Heinz Pagels
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring… — George Washington Carver

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