Discovery Quotes

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it is stuff on SyFy or Discovery Channel or it's about ghost seekers.

Life is a re-discovery.

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.

The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.

The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.