Discovery Quotes - Page 26

• What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

  Arthur Helps

  Blessing, America, Smoking

  Arthur Helps (1859). “Friends in Council”, p.16

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• It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

  Luchino Visconti

  Funny, Blessing, Boredom

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• Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

  Julian Barnes

  Progress, World, Mature

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• It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, School, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.196

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• What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Ignorance, World, Information

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• Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Expression, Goal

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, don’t do that, or I believe, I don’t believe.

  Hari Kunzru

  Fashion, Believe, Writing

  "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.

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• By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries
  is the power of thought.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Century, Power Of Thought

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.114, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

  Ernest Holmes

  Healing, Divinity

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• My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Reflection

  "Transported by the Images of Tarkovsky" by Brad Brevet, www.comingsoon.net. March 12, 2013.

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• I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

  Shel Silverstein

  Book, People, Age

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• I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

  Mark Twain

  Talking, People, Humiliation

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2924, Delphi Classics

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• There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Creative, Sublime

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.

  Rene Descartes

  Persistence, Space

  "French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes".

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• The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

  Stephen Covey

  Art, Creativity, Adventure

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.330, Mango Media Inc.

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• I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here - is really much more profound than what seems to separate us.

  Richard E. Berendzen

  Believe, Profound, Justice

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• The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, Race, Imagination

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Scientist, Made

  "The Creative Process". Scientific American 199:59, September 1958.

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• Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

  Arthur Koestler

  Science, Apples, Cezanne

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

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• Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Sex, Learning, Science

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• When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Science, Mind, Trying

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

  Wayne Teasdale

  God, Wisdom, Caring

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.3, New World Library

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• One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.

  Margery Fish

  Friendship, Flower, Inspiration

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• It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  Colin Maclaurin (1750). “An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries. 2. Ed”, p.20

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• At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

  Plato

  Art, Science, Cities

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.

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