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• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

  Arthur Keith

  Agriculture, Firsts, Steps

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

  Paul Berg

  Facts, Excitement, Forgotten

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• A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

  Robert Morgan

  Voice, Connections, Doe

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• I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, School, Play

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• Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

  Max Ernst

  Reality, Amusement, Painting

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• In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

  Will Durant

  Stress, Order, Political

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• It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

  Frederick Sanger

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Truth, Errors

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.246, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Humor

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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• I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Science, Judging

  Rene Descartes (2007). “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ignorant, Down And

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.66

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• A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Life, Spiritual, Mistake

  Ulysses (1922)

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• There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Funeral, Joy

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• The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Memorable, Men, People

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• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  Garrett Hardin

  Real, Agriculture, Long

  Garrett James Hardin (1976). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”

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• Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

  Robert Redford

  Voice, Talent, Sundance

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• There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Science, Two, Outcomes

  "Nuclear Principles in Engineering". Book by Tatjana Jevremovic, 2005.

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• If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

  Carol P. Christ

  Art, Europe, Agriculture

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• In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

  John Lithgow

  Film, Moments, Animation

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• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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• In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Philosophical, Secret, Stronger

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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Teamwork, Mind, Collaboration

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