The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
~By Rene Descartes ~
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.
~By Thomas Reed ~
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.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
~By Frank Herbert ~
I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
~By Donald Johanson ~
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
~By John Moody ~
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.
~By Christopher Darden ~
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
~By William James ~
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
~By Patrick White ~
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
~By Paul Eldridge ~
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
~By David Ricardo ~
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~By Sophia Loren ~
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~By James Joyce ~
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
~By Chaim Potok ~
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
~By Charles Bradlaugh ~
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
~By Arthur Keith ~
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
~By Joyce Grenfell ~
Sex is a discovery.
~By Fannie Hurst ~
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~By Will Durant ~
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.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.
~By Richard Leakey ~
The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.
~By Johannes Stark ~
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
~By Alexander Smith ~
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
~By Edward M. Purcell ~
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
~By John Grierson ~
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
~By James Joyce ~
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
~By Albert Pike ~
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
~By Edgar Quinet ~
Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
~By William Shatner ~
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.
~By Enrico Fermi ~
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.
~By Donald Evans ~
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.
~By Robert Huber ~
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.
~By Justin Winsor ~
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
~By Oliver Tambo ~
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.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.
~By Linda Lavin ~
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
~By Polly Berrien Berends ~
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
~By Eric Clapton ~
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
~By Ivan Illich ~
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
~By J. L. Austin ~
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~By Will Durant ~
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
~By Northrop Frye ~
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
~By Max Lerner ~
The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.
~By Charles Jules Henry Nicole ~
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.
~By Arthur H. Compton ~
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
~By Robert Redford ~
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.
~By Charles Lyell ~
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
~By Thomas Merton ~
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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.
~By Harry Johnston ~
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.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
~By Malcolm Bradbury ~
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~By Marcel Proust ~
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
~By Andre Malraux ~
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
There is no better high than discovery.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.
~By Donald Johanson ~
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.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
~By Paul Berg ~
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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.
~By Will Durant ~
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
~By John Money ~
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
~By George G. Simpson ~
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
~By John Hannah ~
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
~By David Brin ~
My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
~By Sarah Palin ~
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
~By Paul Valery ~
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
~By Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ~
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