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Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" — Robert Ballard
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the… — Thomas A. Edison
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place… — Robert L. Park
Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox. — Tina Fey
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must… — Luchino Visconti
Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post… — Arthur Koestler
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the… — William James
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries — Alan Alda

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