Discovery Quotes - Page 39

• As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

  Judy Biggert

  Unique, Creating, Office

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• I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

  Michael Pollan

  Answers, Facts, Unexpected

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.7, Penguin

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• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Fire, Coal

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• Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Ships, Columbus

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.211, Penguin

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• Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.

  Bill Bryson

  Real, Ocean, Skills

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.254, Random House

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• The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

  Thomas Leonard

  Unique, Generations, Next

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• Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

  Winston Churchill

  Justice, Honor, Together

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Effort

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• These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

  Rene Descartes

  Fall, Mean, Math

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• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vices, Reform, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.411, Library of America

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• He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Grows, Fairs

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• It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.

  David Lilienthal

  Country, Citizens, Use

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• Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Physicians, Disease, Causes

  Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III, Ch. 3

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• He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

  Charles Kingsley

  Water, Mind, Food Choices

  Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke (fict. name.) (1862). “Alton Locke”, p.21

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• It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Loss, Dna

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• Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Knowledge, Mean, Elephants

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• ...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian.

  Linus Pauling

  Jobs, Dark, Ideas

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• ...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years;...39% (lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for application.

  Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

  Dark, Years, Age

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• When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

  Hermann Hesse

  Glowing, Childhood, Trying

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• The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. On our side, we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes.

  Hans Blix

  Home, Thinking, Iraq

  "Excerpts from inspectors' reports to U.N.", www.cnn.com. January 27, 2003.

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• A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Iron, Example

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• I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you from a deeper basic understanding - quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery, it says that you can't have a universe without mind entering into it, the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Views

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• The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Science, Understanding

  "The Creative Process". Scientific American 199:59, September 1958.

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• Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Garry Robbins

  Years, Body, Murder

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• For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

  Helen Vendler

  College, Views, Two

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