Agnes Mary Clerke Quotes

Observation... is the pitiless critic of theory; it detects weak points, and provokes reforms which may be the beginnings of discovery.

Agnes Mary Clerke

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• But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • News
  • Observation

• I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Money
  • Discovery

• The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Moments
  • Discovery

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Like
  • Discovery
  • Invention

• Sex is a discovery.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Sex
  • Discovery

• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Broken
  • Down
  • Discovery

• It starts with campaign finance reform.

  

  Zack Space
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Campaign

• Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Looks

• It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Time
  • Power
  • Desire

• It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Reform

• When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Office
  • Observation

• If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Listening
  • inspirational
  • Marketing

• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

  

  Jack Roy
  • World
  • Hope
  • Wants

• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Discovery
  • Voyage
  • Landscapes

• If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

  

  Edward Dyer
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Guys

• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Independent
  • Tree
  • Interest

• That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.

  

  Granger Smith
  • Balance
  • Challenges
  • Careers

• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn't there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World
  • Father
  • Forest

• Observation... is the pitiless critic of theory; it detects weak points, and provokes reforms which may be the beginnings of discovery.

  

  Agnes Mary Clerke
  • Discovery
  • Observation
  • Reform