Quotes About Discovery

#1. 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

#2. If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

Heidi Julavits

#3. Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Edith Wharton

#4. Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

Amit Ray

#5. We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#6. I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things ... One wants to open the story, not close it.

Anish Kapoor

#7. They're cloaking," I said, as the pieces clicked into place. "They're using Iron glamour to twist the light around themselves so they appear invisible." I felt a thrill of discovery, of knowing I was right. All those years of watching Star Trek had finally paid off.

Julie Kagawa

#8. It's not like I want to get discovered, exactly, the way you hear actresses getting picked off at diners. It's more about my own road to discovery like pecking my way out of a shell. I just want to roll deep with a pack of talented bastards. Doesn't everybody? - Esme from Sister Mischief

Laura Goode

#9. The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty ... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation ... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad ... Truth matters because of beauty.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.

Evelyn Waugh

#11. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the obstacles that we all must face in order to succeed. You are invited on a journey of personal discovery.

Ken Taylor

#13. Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

Henry Markram

#14. The discovery of vitamin K arose from some studies on the cholesterol metabolism of chicks carried out during the years 1928-1930 in the Biochemical Institute of the University of Copenhagen.

Henrik Dam

#15. What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Arthur Helps

#16. Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

John W. Gardner

#17. I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

Peter Landesman

#18. Dearest love, let me count the ways. Dismemberment, garroted, poisoned, drowned, named. I read that as soon as a species is named it begins its travels up the endangered list. Discovery meaning death.

Lindsay Hunter

#19. The whole key to life is discovering things for yourself. What you do with that discovery is what lies on the other side of that door.

David Whitaker

#20. In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

Mary Shelley

#21. Our understanding of evolution came to us by exactly the same method of scientific discovery that led to printing presses, polio vaccines, and smartphones.

Bill Nye

#22. Writing is the act of discovery.

Natalie Goldberg

#23. The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Chogyam Trungpa

#24. If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

A.R. Ammons

#25. As I go forth today and embark on the wonderful experience of living, I am on a journey of self-discovery and also of the discovery of the self hidden in everyone and the Power in back of everything.

Ernest Holmes

#26. The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

Aldo Leopold

#27. I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant, I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

#28. When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Barnett Newman

#29. You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Paul Gallico

#30. I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#31. You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It's that discovery that makes a marriage work.

Mercedes Lackey

#32. I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

Joanna Field

#33. The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

E. Stanley Jones

#34. It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

Charles Hard Townes

#35. If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

Steve Toltz

#36. There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.

Mooji

#37. Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

George Polya

#38. Mistakes are the doors of discovery", by James Joyce. A similar one: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improve gives everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?

Robert Pattinson

#39. I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

Paul Brown

#40. The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

Jacky Ickx

#41. 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. Compton

#42. The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

Jacob Bronowski

#43. Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Philip K. Dick

#45. Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.

Marcel Proust

#46. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Albert Einstein

#47. When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.

Gene Logsdon

#48. Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

Alfred De Musset

#49. The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Adam Savage

#50. The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse than the death itself.

Chris Cleave

#51. 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

#52. Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

Raymond Carver

#53. The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

Neale Donald Walsch

#54. For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed by His Spirit, is a high provocation of him; nor shall I expect the discovery of truth from any one who thus proudly engages in a work so much beyond his ability.

John Owen

#55. The human mind wants to know more than it should, but it should not be told, personal discovery is the best and sometimes the only way.

Joao Matos

#56. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

Daniel Keyes

#57. I loved the feeling of discovery, of not knowing how much I wanted something until I had discovered its absence.

Roshani Chokshi

#58. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery
love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.

Tennessee Williams

#59. The only true voyage of discovery ... would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust

#60. The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Lewis Thomas

#61. It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.

Deborah Harkness

#62. 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

#63. By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.

Venkatesananda Saraswati

#64. That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.

Sarah Parcak

#65. [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

Edward Teller

#66. A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

Frederick Lenz

#67. Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Charles Darwin

#68. The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: "What makes you think you're going anywhere?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#69. Design is a journey of discovery.

Unknown

#70. As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

Hari Kunzru

#71. if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change.

Gloria Steinem

#72. According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

Daniel Yergin

#73. One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.

James M. Buchanan

#74. Sexual preferences develop, evolve and change over a lifetime. [ ... ] Without opportunities for sexual exploration and discovery, how is a 19 to 20-year-old to learn what he or she likes and how his or her body reacts?

Darrel Ray

#75. The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.

John Moody

#76. I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#77. I'm not giving you his number because he's mine and if you get anywhere near him I swear to God the thing I do to you will be chronicled on Investigation Discovery for years to come

Jay Crownover

#78. Some are afraid of being a mess, feared by the unknown and are horrified by an unplanned future; than, there is some of us who thrive through discovery , excited by unknown territories and intrigued by a future of mystery. How you tell these people apart; one is a thinker, thy other a feeler.

Nikki Rowe

#79. After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

Robert Baden-Powell

#80. With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#81. I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire ... but I had gone to a women's college.

Madeleine Albright

#82. Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

Gerald M. Loeb

#83. This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

Donald Johanson

#84. TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Ambrose Bierce

#85. Emptiness is the worlds greatest discovery

Sorin Cerin

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

Insoo Kim Berg

#87. No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

John Ruskin

#88. The quality of the problem that is found is a forerunner of the quality of the solution that is attained. It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship, that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field.

Daniel H. Pink

#89. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris

#90. No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Alfred North Whitehead

#91. I do it when I'm a preparing for a role quite a bit - I sit with music. It helps influence the discovery of something. Then sometimes during filming I like to listen to the same things. It brings me back to a place where I just feel more creative and focused.

Rami Malek

#92. In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

Judith Perelman Rossner

#93. 'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

T. Harv Eker

#94. How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?

Virginia Postrel

#95. How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.

Walker Percy

#96. The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

Friedrich Dessauer

#97. Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien

Sharon O'Brien

#98. My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

Michael Weatherly

#99. An eternity of wisdom and life lies waiting for discovery by those who are willing to embark on the mystical adventure. All of our resources are within us. All we need is our heart, our mind and the will to be something better than we are.

Kim Chestney

#100. It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.

Henry Parry Liddon