Discovery Quotes - Page 40

• In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Careers, Giving

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• Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Thinking, Cells

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• It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

  Carly Simon

  Purple, Magic, Red

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• We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivation, Children, Real

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Math, Science

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• Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Book, Journey

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.262, M-y books ltd

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• Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

  Jackson Browne

  Music, Song, Writing

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• Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Aids, Unfolding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.617, Library of America

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• Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

  Bruce Lee

  Ends, Process, Constant

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• We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

  Travis Rice

  Self, Earth, Full Potential

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• Honor your seeing...digest your seeing...otherw ise it becomes just another thing you file away in the mind's department of philosophy...yo u're here for much more than knowledge...you are here for Self-discovery.

  Mooji

  Philosophy, Self, Honor

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• You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Creating, Perfect

  Deepak Chopra (2001). “Perfect health: the complete mind body guide”, Harmony

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• Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

  Theobald Smith

  Adventure, Logical, Process

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• Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

  Claude Bernard

  Joy, Torment, Knows

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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• One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Meditation, Problem

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.

  Jonas Salk

  Moving, Artist, Creative

  Academy of Achievement interview, May 16, 1991.

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• Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

  Bill Gates

  Humanity, Disparity

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

  Walker Percy

  Connections, Genius, Seeing

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Thanatos Syndrome”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Christian, Perception, Radicalism

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• What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Thinking, Air

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.224, Pluto Press

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• Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

  Alan Alda

  Serendipity

  "Alan Alda's Human Spark, Part 2". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. January 08, 2010.

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

  Stephen Hawking

  Disability, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Hawking: Is He All He's Cracked Up To Be?" by Michael D. Lemonick, time.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

  Emanuel Steward

  Self, Training, Fear Of Failure

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• God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for the next discovery. Open your arms and your eyes to the God who stands in plain sight and works miracles in your midst. Look for him in your workdays and weekends, in your meeting-filled Mondays and your lazy Saturdays. Search for him in the snowy sunsets and Sabbaths, seasons of Lent and sitting at your table. Pray for—and expect—wonder. For when you search for God, you will discover him.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Monday, Children, Sunset

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• What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.

  Anne Perry

  Believe, Journey, Errors

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