Discovery Quotes

• For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Artist
  • Film
  • Journey

• For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Small
  • Joy
  • Painting

• Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Philosophy

• We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Find
  • Discovery
  • Ourselves

• I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

  

  William Lipscomb
  • Discovery
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Understand
  • Discovery
  • Reversed

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

  

  Joseph Priestley
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery
  • Completing

• Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Science
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Water
  • Discovery
  • Sunscreen

• Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

  

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
  • Science
  • Birth
  • Survived

• Discovery is in absolutely great shape. I'm pretty confident about the entry into the atmosphere and I'm thinking about the landing.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Thinking
  • Atmosphere
  • Confident

• Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Science
  • Discovery

• But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

  

  William Shatner
  • People
  • Filled
  • Conventions

• For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Errors
  • Embarrassed
  • Doubts

• The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now, been plumbed and digested. In this book, Chandak Sengoopta offers both a history of hormone discovery and a chronicle of how this discovery transformed our concepts of the body and how our existing concepts of sex and sexuality, in turn, informed our concepts for understanding hormones.

  

  Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Literature
  • Sexuality
  • Hormones

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Genius

• I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Honor
  • Pleasure
  • Observation

• Discovery is the joy.

  

  Adam Haslett
  • Joy
  • Discovery

• If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Feels

• There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

  

  Steve Chen
  • Problem
  • Information
  • Discovery

• I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reason
  • Language
  • Cultivated

• I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

  

  Moses Hadas
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Imagine

• Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

  

  Alan Valentine
  • Science
  • Use
  • Discovery

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