Discovery Quotes

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

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

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

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Self-discovery means learning to live free!

You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being.

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

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

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.