Discovery Quotes - Page 38

• It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

  David Suzuki

  Truth, Profound, World

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• ...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

  David Irving

  Real, War, Men

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• ... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mean, Self, Years

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

  Hugh Walpole

  Relationship, Anniversary, Marriage

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Good Life, Ideas

  Jim Rohn (2013). “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher”, p.148, Harmony

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• Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Book, Taken

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• Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Self, Perfect Days

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• All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Memories, Mind

  Mortimer J. Adler (1998). “Paideia Proposal”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

  Alexander Fleming

  Triumph, Problem, Academic

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• Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.

  Israel Nathan Herstein

  Jobs, Done, Half

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• A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Reading, Firsts

  Italo Calvino (2014). “Why Read the Classics?”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder, we will forever uncover the secrets of the universe - one by one.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, Sight, Forever

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• Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

  Rick Warren

  Journey, Despair, Valleys

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• Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

  Charles Ghigna

  Writing, Wonder, Surprise

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• Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Learning, Science

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• Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Truth, Tools, Ends

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

  Judy Cannato

  Thinking, Environmental, Tears

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• Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

  Russell Baker

  Class, Television, Revolution

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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• People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Independent, People, Laziness

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• The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward.

  Freeman Dyson

  Moving, Years, Data

  "Freeman Dyson forecasts the future" by Freeman Dyson, www.newscientist.com. November 2006.

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• Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Important, World, May

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• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  New Discoveries

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• I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

  Dean Ornish

  Interesting, Answers, Process

  Dean Ornish (1998). “Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy”

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• I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything.

  Kate Hudson

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

  Justus von Liebig

  Travel, Secret, Impossible

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