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Image of John W. Gardner
Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
- John W. Gardner
Collection: Discovery
Image of Archimedes
Eureka! (I have found it!).
- Archimedes
Collection: Discovery
Image of Archimedes
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
- Archimedes
Collection: Discovery
Image of Adrian Bejan
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
- Adrian Bejan
Collection: Discovery
Image of Gene Logsdon
When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.
- Gene Logsdon
Collection: Discovery
Image of Honor Harger
The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933.
- Honor Harger
Collection: Discovery
Image of Deborah Harkness
It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.
- Deborah Harkness
Collection: Discovery
Image of Abe Ajay
It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.
- Abe Ajay
Collection: Discovery
Image of Abe Ajay
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
- Abe Ajay
Collection: Discovery
Image of George Perle
Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.
- George Perle
Collection: Discovery
Image of Charlie Campbell
Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.
- Charlie Campbell
Collection: Discovery
Image of Banesh Hoffmann
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.
- Banesh Hoffmann
Collection: Discovery
Image of Richard Brookhiser
One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.
- Richard Brookhiser
Collection: Discovery
Image of Kedar Joshi
The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.
- Kedar Joshi
Collection: Discovery
Image of Paul Horowitz
It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.
- Paul Horowitz
Collection: Discovery
Image of David Zaslav
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.
- David Zaslav
Collection: Discovery
Image of Ronald M. Shaich
Behind discovery is delivery.
- Ronald M. Shaich
Collection: Discovery
Image of Arthur L. Herman
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
- Arthur L. Herman
Collection: Discovery
Image of Edith Hamilton
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.
- Edith Hamilton
Collection: Discovery
Image of David Mermin
Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.
- David Mermin
Collection: Discovery
Image of David Mermin
I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.
- David Mermin
Collection: Discovery
Image of Jean Wilson
Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.
- Jean Wilson
Collection: Discovery
Image of Arthur Keith
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.
- Arthur Keith
Collection: Discovery
Image of Lord Kelvin
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.
- Lord Kelvin
Collection: Discovery
Image of Enid Bagnold
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
- Enid Bagnold
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Image of Dorothy Cottrell
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.
- Dorothy Cottrell
Collection: Discovery
Image of Mike Svob
The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.
- Mike Svob
Collection: Discovery
Image of Julianne Nicholson
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.
- Julianne Nicholson
Collection: Discovery
Image of Dimitar Sasselov
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.
- Dimitar Sasselov
Collection: Discovery
Image of Patricia Nell Warren
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.
- Patricia Nell Warren
Collection: Discovery
Image of Henry Clausen
Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.
- Henry Clausen
Collection: Discovery
Image of Jeremy Carver
Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.
- Jeremy Carver
Collection: Discovery
Image of Michael Snow
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.
- Michael Snow
Collection: Discovery
Image of Craig Mello
Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity
- Craig Mello
Collection: Discovery
Image of Charles Thomas Newton
The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.
- Charles Thomas Newton
Collection: Discovery
Image of Albert Bandura
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
- Albert Bandura
Collection: Discovery
Image of Shane Koyczan
To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
- Shane Koyczan
Collection: Discovery
Image of Johann Kaspar Lavater
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Collection: Discovery
Image of John Henry Wigmore
Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.
- John Henry Wigmore
Collection: Discovery
Image of John Henry Wigmore
Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.
- John Henry Wigmore
Collection: Discovery
Image of Henry R. Luce
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
- Henry R. Luce
Collection: Discovery
Image of Ernst Mayr
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts
- Ernst Mayr
Collection: Discovery
Image of Phil Hine
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.
- Phil Hine
Collection: Discovery
Image of L. Todd Rose
That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
- L. Todd Rose
Collection: Discovery
Image of Boti Bliss
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.
- Boti Bliss
Collection: Discovery
Image of Karl Popper
Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.
- Karl Popper
Collection: Discovery
Image of Neale Donald Walsch
Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it
- Neale Donald Walsch
Collection: Discovery
Image of Vanna Bonta
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
- Vanna Bonta
Collection: Discovery