Discovery Quotes

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

Chocolate is one of the world’s most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.