Discovery Quotes

• 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

• I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Discovery
  • Elements

• 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
  • Truth
  • Rules
  • Realization

• 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

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

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Discovery

• Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Culture
  • Energy
  • Joy

• In 1903 the scientists found out that the brontosaurus was a fake! They realized that the brontosaurus was really an apatosaurus with the wrong head. However, although the scientists realized their mistake, most people didn’t know about their new discovery. Many people thought that the brontosaurus still existed because museums kept using the name on their labels—and because the brontosaurus was really, really popular! So even though the scientists discovered their error, most of us didn’t know.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Mistake
  • Scientists
  • Museums

• The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Internet
  • Communication
  • Discovery

• 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

• The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Knowing
  • Possibility
  • Terror

• The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.

  

  Eric Harland
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Creation

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