Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children. — Gloria Steinem
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. — Isaac Asimov
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of… — John Ruskin
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to… — Lord Chesterfield
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery! — Enid Bagnold
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the… — Jean Baudrillard
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and… — Jonathan Carroll
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art. — Eudora Welty
It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science. — Billy Graham
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing… — Ted Allen
Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before. — Germaine Greer
The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the… — Robert Benchley
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. — Carl Sagan
Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where… — Robertson Davies
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New… — Horace Walpole
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the… — Lewis Mumford
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. — Werner Erhard
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol:… — Julian Barnes
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game… — John Lahr

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