Top 100 Quotes About Discovery
#2. The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.
Selman Waksman
#3. If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it
Sunday Adelaja
#4. time. He also discovered that the burglar was still inside. It was this discovery that ultimately brought Detective Harry Bosch and his partner, Jerry Edgar, to the Three Kings Pawnshop.
Michael Connelly
#5. No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.
Lise Meitner
#6. You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.
Lisa Mangum
#7. Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.
Bob Buford
#8. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
Louise Bourgeois
#9. One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.
John Piper
#10. The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially.
Elizabeth Ironside
#11. I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis ... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery ...
Gertrude B. Elion
#12. A necklace of pearls on a white neck.
We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down.
... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty ...
Evelyn Waugh
#13. Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.
Graydon Carter
#14. The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
#15. Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#16. 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
#17. A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.
Donald Kingsbury
#18. 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
#19. I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.
Kenneth Logan
#20. As with all my children, you must find your own path, and through that discovery, you will decide what each earth child must ultimately decide-whether she chooses chaos or love.
P.C. Cast
#21. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
#22. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
Edward R. Murrow
#23. There is greatness in everyone.
Look within yourself and discover your greatness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion ... There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.
David Mermin
#25. Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling ... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Love this in the film, "Velvet Goldmine" it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
Anna Sui
#27. The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
Colin Wilson
#28. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.
Tanveer Naseer
#29. A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
Stan Brakhage
#30. I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
Ray Lamontagne
#31. He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. Love at first sight'some say misnaming
Discovery of twinned helplessness
Against the huge tug of procreation.
But friendship at first sight? This also
Catches fiercely at the surprised heart
So that the cheek blanches then blushes.
Robert Graves
#33. I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.
Dree Hemingway
#34. It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.
Katie Kacvinsky
#35. I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.
Michael Pollan
#36. One discovers weeping - one's weeping personality - only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself
Yann Martel
#37. New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt my Being with my own hands in self-discovery on its cold pottery wheel and in the white heat of its kiln. The City enabled me to learn who I really was, as a pixelated man and member of Humanity.
David B. Lentz
#38. How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.
Jan Struther
#39. When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.
Marie Howe
#41. Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
Samuel Johnson
#42. I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.
Nick Jonas
#43. Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.
Walter Murch
#44. Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?
Ogwo David Emenike
#45. Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
Joseph Campbell
#46. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
#47. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
#48. Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
Benjamin Tucker
#49. He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Robert Redford
#50. I fell into the water with a large splash and sunk like a stone. My feet guided the way as I drifted further into the murky depths.
Down.
Down.
Down.
Brynn Myers
#51. Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.
Fennel Hudson
#52. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.
Ernest Rutherford
#54. It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.
Thomas Pynchon
#55. Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten
Paul Erdos
#56. Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love
it's being unhappy together.
Graham Greene
#57. When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.
Malcolm McNeill
#58. After the snap, Chad took off like a gazelle and the quarterback hurled a 30-yard bomb that rocketed straight to him. Fast as Chad was, Joshua ran him down like a Discovery Channel cheetah. It was no contest.
C. Michael Forsyth
#59. Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#60. Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
David Gross
#61. Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.
John Pipkin
#62. There's no self-expression or joy in these joints
no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.
Caitlin Moran
#63. A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff
#64. Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
Leo Buscaglia
#65. The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Abbe Pierre
#66. You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ
Ikechukwu Joseph
#67. And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Adam Weishaupt
#68. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.
James Marcus
#69. But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.
Nikolai Gogol
#70. The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality ... was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil ... This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands ...
Joseph Campbell
#71. We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
Jane Yolen
#72. To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
Isaac Asimov
#73. All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
Carl Jung
#74. Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.
Joseph C Zinker
#75. The particle's discovery is tremendously exciting. It's also inspirational. Let's just enjoy that for now.
Lisa Randall
#76. The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
Bruno Rossi
#77. Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
Elizabeth Charles
#78. We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.
Nikki Rowe
#79. I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.
Mary Roach
#80. You can create opportunity out of importunity.You can create prosperity out of adversity.U can create something out of nothing
Ikechukwu Joseph
#81. The shows she'd watch on the Discovery Channel hadn't prepared her for a kidnapping. Terrorist attack? Yes. Defending her home? Yes. Kidnapped by a police officer? No. She'd have to write to the network about that.
Nichole Severn
#82. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence Durrell
#83. Apparently people who were in books actually sounded like a book when they talked. This was quite the surprising discovery.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#84. Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived. If
Rhonda Byrne
#85. Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner
#88. You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are
Sunday Adelaja
#89. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
Isaac Newton
#90. I don't like honors ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.
Richard P. Feynman
#91. There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery
Graham Moore
#92. It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.
Sarah Shahi
#93. I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.
Robert Hilburn
#94. It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.
Edgar Mitchell
#95. But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.
Usman T. Malik
#96. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.
Bill Nye
#97. The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.
Gemma Malley
#98. You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.
Josh Kaufman
#99. I made the exhilarating discovery that study, when it is pursued with ardour and discipline, becomes creation.
W.K. Hancock
#100. The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.
Kedar Joshi
