Unexpected Quotes

854 Unexpected quotes by 684 unique authors

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. — Heraclitus
[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"… — Irving Langmuir
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected… — David Hume
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an… — Freeman Dyson
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich… — P T Barnum
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd… — Phoebe Snow
Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings. — Henry Van Dyke
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected… — Etty Hillesum
Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we… — Michael Josephson
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable… — Cesar Milstein
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,… — Lyman Spitzer
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The… — Tsung-Dao Lee
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. — Masaru Ibuka
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved… — John Polkinghorne
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected. — Hugh Latimer Dryden
If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I… — Sun Tzu
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected… — Hannah Arendt
Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who… — Guy Finley
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the… — Roger Bannister
My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!) — Sophie Kinsella
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
Always make room for the unexpected in yourself. — Steve Martin

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