Discovery Quotes - Page 13

• When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that's true, but it is. If nothing else, it's a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that!

  Doc Childre

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Looks

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• It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.

  Lord Acton

  Knowledge, Passion, Science

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History”, p.28, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way Edison could invent the lightbulb is because all the elements had been developed before. That's obvious it wasn't just his genius - 20 others developed it at the same time. And that's true for almost every invention and discovery.

  Charles Koch

  Air, Ideas, Genius

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing that he had copied him. And no, it's because all the elements were there, so it's almost inevitable that the next discovery - as long as people are free and allowed to experiment and try new things.

  Charles Koch

  Believe, Long, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural genius, he worked very hard - even though he was an invalid. He was a great family man, a very nice man. I think he was admirable in all sorts of ways.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing. I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

  Ian Simpson

  Believe, Self, Who I Am

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

  Fernando Araujo Perdomo

  Mistake, Serendipity, Next

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

  Graydon Carter

  America, World, Vikings

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• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

  Frederick Banting

  Book, Science, Beer

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• The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

  Susan C. Aldridge

  Teaching, Learning, Reflection

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• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Memories, Lying, Learning

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• Love at first sight'some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely at the surprised heart So that the cheek blanches then blushes.

  Robert Graves

  Heart, Sight, Firsts

  Robert Graves (1997). “Complete Poems”

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• The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Father, August

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• I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.

  Frederick Exley

  Lying, Heart, Dark

  Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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• and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

  George Eliot

  Agony, Soul, Range

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.83, 谷月社

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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

  Tom Robbins

  Ocean, Book, Blue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

  Ilona Andrews

  Discipline, Needs, Chains

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.233, Penguin

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• The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ezra Pound (1965). “Ezra Pound perspectives: essays in honor of his eightieth birthday”

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• Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery.

  David Almond

  Book, Cities, Looks

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• With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Two, Intellectual

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Age, Lucky, Stills

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.349, Princeton University Press

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• It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Swings, Exhilaration

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Regret, Generosity, Letters

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• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Disappointment, Sea

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• There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

  Margaret Drabble

  Play, Would Be, Genuine

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