Discovery Quotes
-
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
David Lilienthal -
Definition is the death of discovery.
Tom Shadyac
-
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith -
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even with such a discovery, we could not expect one to do more than carry its owner.
Simon Newcomb -
The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles
Charles P. Kindleberger -
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
John Ruskin -
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
Richard Feynman
-
Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.
Simon Conway Morris -
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
Eudora Welty -
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant -
On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date. In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.
Michel Foucault -
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
Charles Ghigna
-
Working with Meryl Streep I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."
Anne Hathaway -
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant -
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Ezra Pound -
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Richard Feynman -
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
William Targ -
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.
Georg Buhler
-
Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
Tom Vilsack -
All education is self-discovery.
Ray Bradbury -
We’re living in the age of discovery. I think it is almost more exciting to release music with newer artists.
DJ Cassidy -
By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.
Charles F. Haanel