Discovery Quote by Joseph Henry

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““The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.””

Joseph Henry

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Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of…

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The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained…

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All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

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Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

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The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.

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The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place…

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The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of…

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The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant…

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“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as…

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive…

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Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not…

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There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between…

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,…

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The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up…

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That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow…

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When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds…

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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

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“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum in Concepción, Chile. These skulls were originally discovered on Isla Mocha, which is located 25 miles off the south-central coast of Chile. Since some of them have definite telltale signs of being Polynesian, the strong suggestion…

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