Discovery Quotes
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Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.
Eileen Collins -
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
Richard Feynman
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In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.
Ernest Starling -
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
Helen Keller -
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Györgyi -
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
Albert Camus -
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
Ernst Mayr -
Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
Nikola Tesla
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Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.
Robert Zubrin -
A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.
Alar Toomre -
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.
Paul Davies -
If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.
Richard Feynman -
Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
Katharine Sharp -
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
Ernest Dimnet
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The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.
George Will -
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.
Lewis Carroll -
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.
Thomas Keating -
Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
Michael Polanyi -
The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.
Paul Hoffman -
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
Richard Feynman
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The whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later Christians invented to persuade others that the resurrection indeed happened.
Bart Ehrman -
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
Joseph Heller -
The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.
Minor White -
Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.
Margaret Mitchell