Top Discovery Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Discovery quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jeanette Winterson
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
- Jeanette Winterson
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Image of Marion Milner
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
- Marion Milner
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Image of Myles Munroe
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
- Myles Munroe
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Image of Hugh Nibley
All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.
- Hugh Nibley
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Image of Louis Pasteur
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
- Louis Pasteur
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Image of William Carlos Williams
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
- William Carlos Williams
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Image of Octavio Paz
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
- Octavio Paz
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Image of Roger von Oech
There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.
- Roger von Oech
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Image of Satyajit Ray
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
- Satyajit Ray
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Image of Claude Bernard
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
- Claude Bernard
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Image of Ernest Rutherford
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
- Ernest Rutherford
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Image of Charles Bradlaugh
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
- Charles Bradlaugh
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Image of Adam Braun
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
- Adam Braun
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Image of A. A. Milne
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
- A. A. Milne
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Image of Nick Harkaway
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.
- Nick Harkaway
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Image of Margaret J. Wheatley
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
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Image of Barry Long
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
- Barry Long
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Image of Helen Clark MacInnes
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.
- Helen Clark MacInnes
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Image of John Moody
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
- John Moody
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Image of Gladys Taber
Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
- Gladys Taber
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Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Image of Shannyn Sossamon
Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.
- Shannyn Sossamon
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Image of Clive Bell
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
- Clive Bell
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Image of Paracelsus
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
- Paracelsus
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Image of Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Image of Kevin Hearne
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.
- Kevin Hearne
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Image of Michael Polanyi
Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
- Michael Polanyi
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Image of Horace Walpole
Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
- Horace Walpole
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Image of Shaun Tan
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
- Shaun Tan
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Image of Ted Kooser
A poem is a record of a discovery.
- Ted Kooser
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Image of Henri Poincare
Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
- Henri Poincare
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Image of Walker Percy
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
- Walker Percy
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Image of Pascal Mercier
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
- Pascal Mercier
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Image of Georg Cantor
I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.
- Georg Cantor
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Image of George Dantzig
Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.
- George Dantzig
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Image of William Stanley Jevons
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.
- William Stanley Jevons
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Image of Steve Winwood
I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.
- Steve Winwood
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Image of Robert Hilburn
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.
- Robert Hilburn
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Image of Leonard Adleman
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.
- Leonard Adleman
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Image of Susanne Katherina Langer
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.
- Susanne Katherina Langer
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Image of Susanne Katherina Langer
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
- Susanne Katherina Langer
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Image of Alexander Fleming
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
- Alexander Fleming
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Image of George Stigler
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
- George Stigler
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Image of Henry Margenau
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang and similar astronomical phenomena, are wholly compatible with this view.
- Henry Margenau
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Image of Leopold Kronecker
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.
- Leopold Kronecker
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Image of Moshe Feldenkrais
What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.
- Moshe Feldenkrais
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Image of Geza Vermes
The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.
- Geza Vermes
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Image of Henry Thomas Buckle
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.
- Henry Thomas Buckle
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Image of Alexander Fraser Tytler
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
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