William Carlos Williams Quotes

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

William Carlos Williams

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Why
  • History
  • Question

• [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

• For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Home
  • Nature
  • Discovery

• The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Up
  • May
  • Amazing

• It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Pain
  • Rest
  • Courage

• [Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Government
  • Wisdom

• Canada's sovereignty over Hans Island is longstanding and based on a solid foundation in international law. This includes the discovery of the Arctic islands by British explorers and subsequent devolution to Canada.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Discovery
  • Foundation
  • Sovereignty

• ... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Miracle
  • Discovery
  • Perpetual

• The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • History
  • Imagination
  • Human

• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth
  • Fashion
  • Judgment

• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Wonder
  • Process
  • Discovery

• No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Discovery
  • Bold
  • Guess

• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Men
  • Fool
  • Advantage

• Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life is
  • Discovery
  • Continuous

• There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Genius
  • Madness

• There are no world-class players here, not at the moment, but we will in four years.

  

  Eddie Jones
  • Players
  • World-class

• You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Violence

• I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Children
  • Family
  • Outside

• Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

  

  William Carlos Williams
  • Discovery
  • DIssonance