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What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.Collection: Discovery
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.Collection: Discovery
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.Collection: Discovery
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.Collection: Discovery
We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.Collection: Discovery
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.Collection: Discovery
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.Collection: Discovery
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.Collection: Discovery
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.Collection: Discovery
So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.Collection: Discovery
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.Collection: Discovery
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.Collection: Discovery
As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.Collection: Discovery
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.Collection: Discovery
Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.Collection: Discovery
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.Collection: Discovery
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.Collection: Discovery
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.Collection: Discovery
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.Collection: Discovery
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old.Collection: Discovery
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.Collection: Discovery
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.Collection: Discovery
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.Collection: Discovery
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.Collection: Discovery
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.Collection: Discovery
...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.Collection: Discovery
To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.Collection: Discovery
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.Collection: Discovery
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.Collection: Discovery
There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.Collection: Discovery
Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.Collection: Discovery
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.Collection: Discovery
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.Collection: Discovery
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.Collection: Discovery
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discoveryCollection: Discovery
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.Collection: Discovery
Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in yearsCollection: Discovery
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.Collection: Discovery
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.Collection: Discovery
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.Collection: Discovery
You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.Collection: Discovery
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.Collection: Discovery
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.Collection: Discovery
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.Collection: Discovery
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.Collection: Discovery
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself.Collection: Discovery