Discovery Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Behind discovery is delivery.

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need.

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.