Discovery Quotes

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

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.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Sex is a discovery.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

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.

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

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

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.

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

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 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.