Discovery Quotes
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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 -
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
Richard Feynman
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Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.
Robert Zubrin -
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Ezra Pound -
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 -
When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.
Wolfgang Ketterle -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.
Thomas Keating -
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 -
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 -
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.
Eileen Collins -
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 -
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 -
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
Richard Feynman -
All education is self-discovery.
Ray Bradbury
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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