Discovery Quotes - Page 31

• The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Dream, Believe, Ignorance

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• It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Fire, Light

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

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• As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.

  David Mixner

  Spiritual, Adventure, Healing

  "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Waiting, Realization

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• When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Trying, Research, Lines

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• Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.

  Jacques Loeb

  Science, Alcohol, Principles

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• Self-discovery means learning to live free!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Mean, Self, Live Free

  Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”

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• It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

  Peter Agre

  Honor, Advancement, Fundamentals

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• First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified, but a new process has been developed to mass produce this virus. Thirdly, with the discovery of both the virus and this new process, we now have a blood test for AIDS. With a blood test, we can identify AIDS victims with essentially 100% certainty.

  Margaret Heckler

  Cancer, Blood, Viruses

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• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  C. L. R. James

  Social, Social Change, Technological

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• Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

  Henry R. Luce

  Poet, Easier, Made

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• This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.

  Gideon Defoe

  Thinking, Sea, Long

  Gideon Defoe (2012). “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: Reissued”, p.12, A&C Black

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• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Scientist, Invention

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• What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

  Margot Asquith

  America, Religion, Pity

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• There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Musician, Poet, Made

  William Kingdon Clifford (1886). “Lectures and Essays”

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• I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

  Iris Apfel

  Years, Shopping, Hunters

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• Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Understanding, Chance

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 23, 1799.

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• Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you; not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Unique, Loving Yourself

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• Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.

  Max Nordau

  Civilization, Hysteria, Community

  Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

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• In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Christian, Years, Law

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.

  Mike Brown

  Matter, Bigs, Exciting

  Mike Brown (2010). “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”, p.102, Spiegel & Grau

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• Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

  John Polkinghorne

  Objectivity, Views, World

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• But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

  J. L. Austin

  Fun, Philosophy, Agreement

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• It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Real, Progress, Atheism

  Henry St John's letter to Alexander Pope, as quoted in "The Work of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Selected from the Best Authorities. In Four Volumes. Volume III", 1841.

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