Daring Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

— Bryant H. McGill

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

— Joseph Priestley

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

— C. S. Lewis

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

— William John Wills

Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter…

— Samuel Smiles

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means.

— Scott Belsky

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

— Mary Wigman

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

— Bertrand Russell

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity,…

— Francis Bacon

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

— Henri Poincare

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

— Malcolm McDowell