Discovery Quotes - Page 28

• Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Children, Privilege, Serious

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• Discovery is for forward lookers.

  T. B. Joshua

  "'My Invisible Chain' - T.B. Joshua". Interview with Clement Okitikpi, Oluwasegun Abifarin and Emeka Ngwei, ru.scribd.com. February 11, 2008.

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• When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance

  David Brin

  Book, Character, Past

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• As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

  John McGahern

  Writing, Ends, Process

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Self, Realization

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.9, Grove Press

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• There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Intelligent, Thinking, Design

  Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Wesley Richards (2004). “The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery”, p.15, Regnery Publishing

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• Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Littles, New Inventions

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 82), 1999.

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• The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Imagination, Form, Species

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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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• If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Book, Fall

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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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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• So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

  Robert Bloch

  Sleep, Long, Stories

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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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• In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Opportunity

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