Discovery Quotes

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

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

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

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

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

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

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.

Mistakes are the doorway to discovery.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

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.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.