Discovery Quotes

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

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.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.