Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other… — Ivan Pavlov
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational… — Georg Cantor
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could… — Georg Cantor
I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied… — Georg Cantor
Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should… — Lynne Cheney
Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay… — George Dantzig
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that… — Rene Descartes
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as… — Robert L. Devaney
We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from… — John Dewey
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go… — Paul Dirac
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that… — Leopold Kronecker
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new… — George Polya
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first… — George Polya
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast. — Bertrand Russell
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for… — Andre Weil
The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its… — Hermann Weyl
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. — Alfred North Whitehead
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65… — Dmitri Mendeleev
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. — Barry Goldwater
Our real discoveries come from chaos, — Chuck Palahniuk
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the… — Wilhelm Reich
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not… — William Ralph Inge
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never… — Henry David Thoreau

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