Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better. — Xenophanes
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in particular gave a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much… — Stephanie Kwolek
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many… — Caridad Svich
I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of… — Moses Hadas
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i… — Edward Kasner
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of… — Percival Lowell
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next… — William Golding
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. — A. P. Herbert
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a… — Plato
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he… — John Steinbeck
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same… — Bertrand Russell
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained… — Louise Bourgeois
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the… — Albert Einstein
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is… — Michael Jordan
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he… — Thomas Kuhn
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest… — S. J. Perelman
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion… — Bruce Lee
There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a… — Mooji
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a… — Richard Wagner
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities… — Bill Gates

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