Discovery Quotes

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Problem

• 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

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

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Writing
  • Quality
  • Discovery

• Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Happy
  • Discovery
  • Houston

• 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
  • Discovery
  • Legend
  • Christians

• 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
  • Fun
  • Learning
  • Marriage

• Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery

• 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

• Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Problems
  • Result
  • Investigation

• By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • Power
  • Discovery
  • Century

• 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
  • Grows
  • Bubbles
  • Fraud

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

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Facts
  • Achieved
  • Improvements

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

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Ethics
  • Discovery
  • Concept

• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Discovery

• 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
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Old Age

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

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Science
  • Discovery

• 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

• 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
  • World
  • Writing
  • Feelings

• 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

• 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

• Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Song
  • Science
  • Discovery

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Lucky
  • Discovery
  • Lifetime

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