Discovery Quotes - Page 34

• You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore your self! There is power in you — the power to change yourself and to change the world.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Writing, Inspire, Depth

  "The Art of Living".

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• Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

  James McBride

  Family, Miracle, Lasts

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• All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.

  Laura Nyro

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Time, Perfect, Progress

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• Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Greatness, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1828, Manonmani Publishers

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• Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

  Northrop Frye

  Nature, Order, Structure

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.97, Princeton University Press

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• Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to prove what I believe, I can't. You know them to be true but you could spend a whole lifetime without being able to prove them. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a leap—call it intuition or what you will—and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Death of a Genius". Life Magazine, May 2, 1955.

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• The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind
  any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to
  safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently
  strong executive power, can protect us.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Organization, Abuse

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes.

  Rick Strassman

  Usa, Dmt, Drug

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• The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

  Richard Tarnas

  Spiritual, Unconscious, Undertakings

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• I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Struggle, Thinking, Self

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• Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

  Tina Fey

  Mean, Peanut Butter, Looks

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Love Is, Directors, Something New

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• As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.

  Bill Nye

  Love You, Joy, Answers

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• Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Smart, Ignorance

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it’s not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people—theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, People, Trying

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery, along with a heartfelt affection for those who keep alight the flame of our musical heritage.

  Lenny Kaye

  Passion, Journey, Flames

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• For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Self, Who I Am

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Nuts, Race

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

  Martin Mull

  Teacher, Art, School

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• It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

  Arianna Huffington

  Adventure, Responsibility, Journey

  Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

  Sprague Grayden

  Real, Party, Reading

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• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.

  Sim Van der Ryn

  Book, Journey, Design

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• Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.

  Nick Harkaway

  Body, May, Moments

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• The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.

  Eric Harland

  Secret, Life Is, Conversations With God

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