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• The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

  Herb Pardes

  Animal, Anxiety, Use

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• Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Bridges, Skills

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• The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, War, Civilization

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• We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Believe, Upset

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• To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Achievement, Littles, Limits

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• America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America"

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Tired, Names

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• Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

  Helen Hayes

  Children, Responsibility, Leaving

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• If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

  John F. Kennedy

  Blessing, Challenges, Humanity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.806, Best Books on

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• It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Unhappy, Too Late, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, America, Long

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

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• The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

  John Dewey

  Problem, Identification, Outstanding

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.351, SIU Press

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• We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Mistake, Watches, There Is Hope

  Arthur Quiller-Couch (2016). “On The Art of Reading”, p.8, Youcanprint

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• The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

  Milan Kundera

  Courage, Character, Secret

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• Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

  Laurence Freeman

  Acceptance, Solitude, Uniqueness

  Laurence Freeman (1996). “Web of silence: letters to meditators”

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• The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

  Matt Taibbi

  Two, History, Humanity

  "A sense of adventure" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2005.

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• For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Science, Bystanders

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.5, Oxford Paperbacks

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• We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.

  Jared Diamond

  Science, Reality, Years

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• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Illumination, Ideas, Light

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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

  Joseph Priestley

  Knowledge, Ideas, Creating

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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• It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Success, Men, Views

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• There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Men, Discipline, Political

  "Biographical Memoirs" edited by Darleane C. Hoffman, (p. 252), 2000.

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• They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

  Francis Atterbury

  Believe, Other Worlds, Messengers

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• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  Francis Atterbury

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

  Jim Palmer

  Past, Years, Belief

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• Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

  Kim Edwards

  Writing, Events, Stories

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