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• In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.

  Pope John Paul I

  Independent, Discipline, Different

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• Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

  Daniel Goleman

  Creative, Daydreaming

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.33, A&C Black

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• When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

  Lord Kelvin

  Faces, Problem, Habit

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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• To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion − not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to.

  Paul Lockhart

  Inspiration, Math, Confusion

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• To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

  Louis Pasteur

  Curiosity, Mind, Firsts

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• I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Miscarriage, Necessary Use

  Samuel Johnson (1889). “Select Essays”

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• It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Dwarves, Views

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.203

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• Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

  George Berkeley

  Learning, Science, Needs

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• The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Beauty, Art, Statistics

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• Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

  Rene Descartes

  Statistics, Available

  Rene Descartes (2013). “Discourse on the Method: Discourse On the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth In the Sciences (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

  Hermann Hankel

  Flower, Eye, Statistics

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• 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.

  Judy Biggert

  Unique, Creating, Office

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• I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

  Michael Pollan

  Answers, Facts, Unexpected

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.7, Penguin

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• Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

  Julian Schwinger

  Important, Royal, Three

  Julian Schwinger (2012). “Einstein's Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Sorry, Memories

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• It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, School, Passionate

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication

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• Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their own conjectures and discoveries, to be wrong, to be creatively frustrated, to have an inspiration, and to cobble together their own explanations and proofs-- you deny them mathematics itself.

  Paul Lockhart

  Art, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

  Wolfgang Ketterle

  Running, Weekend, Thinking

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• Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret by its discoverers and not at once made available for all who desire to share in it.
  The knowledge is reserved in order that humanity may be protected from its abuse at the hands of the unscrupulous.

  Dion Fortune

  Hands, Order, Giving

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• Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Times Have Changed, Personality

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• How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization.

  Paulo Freire

  Long, Impossible, Host

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

  Colum McCann

  Years, Thrilling

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• The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

  Harold Innis

  Eye, Civilization, Ears

  Harold Adams Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.321, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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