Discovery Quotes

• It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Science
  • Civilization
  • Advantage

• 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
  • Discovery
  • Labor
  • Efforts

• 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
  • Taken
  • Sometimes
  • Journey

• Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Past
  • Memories
  • Facts

• It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Language
  • Tradition

• All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • History
  • Today
  • Process

• What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Loved
  • Afraid
  • Discovery

• Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Ethics
  • Discovery
  • Concept

• Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Writing
  • Quality
  • Discovery

• There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Doubt
  • Curiosity

• 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
  • Country
  • Policy
  • Citizens

• 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
  • War
  • Father
  • Discovery

• No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Joy
  • Discovery
  • Plagiarist

• 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
  • Discovery
  • Cameras

• Perhaps he Mondrian was too faithful to a single discovery. And perhaps that kind of painting was right for the period. But now peace and harmony are no longer possible. There is only anguish.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Harmony
  • Discovery

• 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
  • Trying
  • Effort
  • Progress

• The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Essentials

• In this connection I should stress that the discovery of the empty tomb appears to be a late tradition. It occurs in Mark for the first time, some thirty-five or forty years after Jesus died. Our earliest witness, Paul, does not say anything about it.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Connection
  • Tradition

• Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Facts
  • Achieved
  • Improvements

• 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
  • Discovery
  • Obvious
  • Amusing

• Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Discovery
  • Collection

• 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
  • World
  • Made
  • Views

• 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
  • Mankind
  • Century
  • Judged

• 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
  • Science
  • Idea
  • Discovery

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