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 ~
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 ~
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
~By Arthur Keith ~
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.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
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 discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
~By Arthur Keith ~
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 greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
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 ~
This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.
~By Robert Huber ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
~By Edward M. Purcell ~
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
~By Robert Redford ~
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 ~
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.
~By Richard Leakey ~
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 ~
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~By Marcel Proust ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.
~By John W. Thompson ~
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~By Will Durant ~
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 ~
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
~By John Zorn ~
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
~By Bruno Rossi ~
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 ~
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
~By John Lithgow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
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 ~
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 gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
~By Polly Berrien Berends ~
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
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 ~
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
~By Thomas Merton ~
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
~By Paul Berg ~
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
~By Ivan Illich ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Martin Mull ~
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
~By Howard Carter ~
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
~By Marcel Proust ~
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.
~By Pete Waterman ~
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
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 ~
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
~By Joichi Ito ~
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 poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
~By Robert Morgan ~
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 ~
Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge.
~By John W. Thompson ~
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 ~
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
~By Patrick White ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
~By Edmund White ~
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.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
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 ~
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.
~By Thomas Reed ~
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
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 ~
My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
~By Sarah Palin ~
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
~By Henry Taube ~
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.
~By Judy Biggert ~
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 ~
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 ~
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
~By Burt Rutan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
~By James Joyce ~
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 ~
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
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