Discovery Quotes

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

As with all my children, you must find your own path, and through that discovery, you will decide what each earth child must ultimately decide-whether she chooses chaos or love.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.