New Discoveries Quotes

• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Knowledge, Learning, Science

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• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.273, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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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, Discovery, Roots

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• There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Discovery, Measurement

  "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.

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• I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Life, Believe, Health

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• The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

  Humphry Davy

  Failure, Discovery, Important

  "Self Help; With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance". Book by Sameul Smiles, Arc Manor LLC, p. 240, 2008.

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• When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Science, Discovery, Mind

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Thinking, Discovery

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Discovery, Doubt

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.290, Princeton University Press

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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

  Discovery, Important, World

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• Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Discovery, Littles

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 82), 1999.

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• I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

  Steven Morrissey

  Artist, Thinking, Discovery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Discovery, Gains, Depth

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• As new discoveries are causing all-penetrating physical lights so to abound as that, as has been said, we shall soon not know where in the world to get any darkness, so our new facilities for every sort of communication work to reduce privacy much within its former limits.

  Harriet Martineau

  Communication, Light, Discovery

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.90

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• At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

  Johannes Stark

  Light, Discovery, Facts

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• New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

  Fred Upton

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

  Edgar Quinet

  Discovery, Wish, Orthodoxy

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.87

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• In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

  James Burgh

  Loss, Discovery, Opponents

  James Burgh (1816). “Of prudence”, p.38

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• Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

  James Nicoll

  Discovery, Wells, Alas

  Usenet article, 2005.

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• Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

  Jay Samit

  Discovery, Use, Something New

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

  James Dyson

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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