Discovery Quotes - Page 5

• I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

  Andre Agassi

  Finding Yourself, Sometimes, Moments

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• It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Religion, Atheism, Trying

  "What America Means to Me". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1943.

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• No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

  Michael Shermer

  Single Life, Together, Fields

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

  Arthur Keith

  Agriculture, Groups, Fertility

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Errors, Opposites

  "Prejudices: Third Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

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• There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

  Paul Eldridge

  Claims, Sole, Profundity

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• It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

  Calvin Trillin

  Cooking, Records, Clubs

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

  Arthur H

  Confidence, Truth, Gamer

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• It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Design, Chance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.82

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• Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Mistake, Drama

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• But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

  William Shatner

  People, Want, Conventions

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• The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Roots, Serendipity

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• New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

  Herbert Hoover

  Travel, Adventure, Politics

  "Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950".

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• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

  Charles Kettering

  Wisdom, Science, Brain

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• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Kissing, Love Is, Greatest Love

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• A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Leadership, Business, Journey

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• No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Differences, World

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.

  Alar Toomre

  Careers, Two, Lucky

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• What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

  Jonas Salk

  Thinking, People, Moments

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Invisible Monsters, Chaos

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

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• I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Thinking, Evil

  "White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures". Book by Robert B. Taylor, 2008.

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• I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Inspiring, Invention, Adventurer

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• Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

  J. G. Holland

  Science, Men, Track

  J. G. HOLLAND (1867). “KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM”, p.230

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• The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Happiness, Stars, Food

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.26, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Stupid, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

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