Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the… — James Randi
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. — Alan Valentine
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make… — Claude Bernard
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy… — F. C. S. Schiller
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. — Claude Bernard
May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give… — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. — Phillip Adams
A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery,… — Kenny Loggins
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock… — George Eliot
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know… — Twyla Tharp
Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new? — Michael Shurtleff
Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the… — Unknown Author
Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul,… — Unknown Author
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. — Nirmala Srivastava
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. — Mark Van Doren
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . .… — William Graham Sumner
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. — Lin Yutang
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in… — Alfred North Whitehead
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more… — Gian-Carlo Rota

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