Discovery Quotes

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

Art is a journey of discovery.

I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

God shall be my last discovery.

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition.

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.