New Discoveries Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
— Isaac Asimov
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men…
— George Ellery Hale
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Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
— Sydney Brenner
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We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
— Samuel Johnson
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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature…
— Francis Bacon
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Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,…
— Fred Edwords
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Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have…
— Nikola Tesla
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
— Richard P. Feynman
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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional…
— Robert Trout
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The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of…
— Albert A. Michelson
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically…
— Francis Atterbury
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Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need…
— Michelle Obama
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Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers,…
— Bill Nye
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Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession…
— Heinz Pagels
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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
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We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size,…
— Johannes Stark
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