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• To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

  Alan Watts

  Wise, Technology, Men

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• This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Gay, Law, Careers

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• Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Mirrors, Long

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.311, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Four, Creator

  Ted Dekker (2006). “Showdown”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Practice, Two

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• Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Tears, Unhappy

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Strong, Flower

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pace, Opinion, Constitution

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Science, Light

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• I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Games, Trying

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Views, Humanity

  Marie Curie's lecture at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, May 14, 1921.

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• Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Believe, Impossible

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• There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stars, Learning, Science

  "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher". David L. Goodstein, "Physics Today", Volume 42, No. 2, February 1989.

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• Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.

  Kage Baker

  Mistake, Hate, Technology

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.217, Macmillan

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• Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Real, Love Is

  1959 'The Sublime and the Good'.

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• I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

  Martin Buber

  Knowledge, Learning, Adventure

  "Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1971.

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• You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

  Paul Gallico

  Hero, Missing, Finals

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Moon, Thinking, Law

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• The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

  Lewis Thomas

  Ignorance, Accomplishment, Century

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• Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

  Michael Crichton

  World, Natural, Natural World

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Believe, Thoughtful

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• I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Mean, Different, Scientist

  Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.123, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

  William Carlos Williams

  Dissonance, Ifs

  William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.175, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Ansel Adams

  World, Helping, Affirmation

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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