Discovery Quotes - Page 25

• The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

  Richard Tarnas

  Spiritual, Unconscious, Undertakings

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• I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

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• Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

  Tina Fey

  Mean, Peanut Butter, Looks

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Love Is, Directors, Something New

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• As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.

  Bill Nye

  Love You, Joy, Answers

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• Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Smart, Ignorance

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it’s not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people—theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, People, Trying

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery, along with a heartfelt affection for those who keep alight the flame of our musical heritage.

  Lenny Kaye

  Passion, Journey, Flames

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• For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Self, Who I Am

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Nuts, Race

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• 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.

  Martin Mull

  Teacher, Art, School

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• It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

  Arianna Huffington

  Adventure, Responsibility, Journey

  Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

  Sprague Grayden

  Real, Party, Reading

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• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.

  Sim Van der Ryn

  Book, Journey, Design

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• Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.

  Nick Harkaway

  Body, May, Moments

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• The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.

  Eric Harland

  Secret, Life Is, Conversations With God

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• When it comes down to it, it’s pretty simple. Adventure is what you make it. And whether it’s the travel, the discovery or just the feeling of letting go, the only way we’ll ever find out is to get out there and do it. Enjoy the ride.

  Travis Rice

  Letting Go, Adventure, Simple

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• If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it.  Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

  Travis Rice

  Self, Earth, Want

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• They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

  Tom Waits

  Struggle, Book, Gone

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• Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.

  David Doubilet

  Voyages, Voyages Of Discovery, Assignments

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• Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.

  Wallace Stegner

  Men, Air, Oxygen

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• The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Drama, Writing, Mean

  "Nadine Gordimer on dividing fact from fiction" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Who I Am, Black

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• I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Salvation, Accidents

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• They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Pain, Heart, Blood

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