Making Discoveries Quotes

#1. Serendipity ... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

Horace Walpole

#2. There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

Bengt I. Samuelsson

#3. I am curious, I love making discoveries, travelling, speaking with people, go shopping.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

#4. A Persian fairy tale tells of the Three Princes of Serendip, who "were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of."7 Creativity in the wild operates much like that.

Daniel Goleman

#5. Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

Joan Aiken

#6. America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries; file them for future reference.

Blanche Ebbutt

#8. Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making ... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Tim Hunt

#9. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

George Washington Carver

#10. Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

Jack Horner

#11. We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Richard Feynman

#12. Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries

Jacob Barnett

#13. The time has come for us to admit our insignificance by making discoveries in the infinite unexplored cosmos. Only then shall we realize that we are nothing but ants in the vast state of the universe. And yet our future and our opportunities lie in the universe, where gods promised they would.

Erich Von Daniken

#14. The world is hungry for the discoveries that young, leading-edge brain researchers are making in Ontario today. This collaboration will help them bring their best ideas to market, improving the quality of life for Ontarians while creating good jobs and promoting economic growth.

Brad Duguid

#15. I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

Shinya Yamanaka

#16. Genius lies not in making the great discoveries, but in seeing the connections between the smaller ones ...

Walker Percy

#17. I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#18. Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A

Norman Doidge

#19. My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.

Craig Venter

#20. Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

Shashi Tharoor

#21. Don't even try making out I'm making this up. I've got proof. Evidence.

Diane Samuels

#22. The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

Brian Stableford

#23. It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists) ... despise utility. But because.. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

John Charles Polanyi

#24. In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.

Robert Greene

#25. One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

A.A. Milne

#26. The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Claude Bernard

#27. I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#28. And we built up between ourselves a pathetic sort of domesticity that we both felt need of. We began tasting our food again, making little discoveries in grocery stores, bringing them home to share. When strawberries came in season, I remember, Kraft and I whooped it up as though Jesus had returned.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#29. Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

Terence McKenna

#30. The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.

Geoff Dyer

#31. A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

Walker Percy