Discovery Quotes - Page 10

• I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

  Anna Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

  Oscar Handlin

  Writing, Usa, America

  Oscar Handlin (2002). “The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People”, p.3, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fall, Ties, Order

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Torches, Quests, Scientist

  "The Grand Design". Book by Leonard Mlodinow and Stephen Hawking, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

  Robert Morgan

  Long, Interesting, Texture

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Science, Power, Errors

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 17, 2007.

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• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, America

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Howard Carter

  Country, Congratulations, Enquiry

  Howard Carter's Diary, November 7, 1922.

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• The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Firsts, Columbus, Made

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 42, 1799.

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• Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Imagination, Fertility, Firsts

  "The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method".

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• 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

  A. R. Ammons

  Taken, May, Chance

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• 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.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mean, Eugenics, Socialism

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Art, Writing, Ancient

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.8, Beard Books

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• People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

  Ann Druyan

  Giving Up, Passion, Thinking

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• 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.

  Abbe Pierre

  School, St Francis Of Assisi, Transformation

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• Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Transition, Unlikely, Cases

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• 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.

  Andre Malraux

  Artist, Order, Painting

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• Eureka! (I have found it!).

  Archimedes

  Found

  "An Introduction to Mathematics". Book by Alfred North Whitehead (pp. 38-40), 1911.

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• 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.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Writing, Character, Ideas

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• By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

  Homer

  Done, Deeds, Aids

  Homer (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspiration, Made

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• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Cute, Science

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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