Top 66 The Greatest Discovery Quotes
#1. The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
William James
#2. The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)
Daniel Quinn
#3. The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.
Rupert Spira
#4. This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.
Brian Swimme
#5. Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.
John Jacob Abel
#6. The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.
Jose Silva
#7. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William Jones
#8. The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.
Albert Schweitzer
#9. By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries
is the power of thought.
Charles F. Haanel
#10. The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.
Ellen J. Barrier
#11. This will be the greatest discovery since the extinction of dinosaurs."
"Assuming dinosaurs did exist, that is," Derkein said.
Alex shook her head. "Couldn't just let me have this moment, could you?
Alecia Stone
#12. The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
Myles Munroe
#13. The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
Marshall McLuhan
#15. It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.
Paul Horowitz
#16. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
#17. The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
William James
#18. The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
Bertrand Russell
#19. It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
Luchino Visconti
#20. Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.
John Henry Wigmore
#21. The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.
Steven Magee
#22. In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.
Tobias Dantzig
#23. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge." Many
John C. Maxwell
#24. The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Joseph Conrad
#25. The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.
Philip W. Comfort
#26. I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.
Linus Pauling
#28. The greatest joy is the joy of discovery. Followed closely by the joy of a discovery that doesn't kill you. - Enid Healy
Seanan McGuire
#29. One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
William James
#31. The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. Emptiness is the worlds greatest discovery
Sorin Cerin
#34. The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
Lewis Thomas
#35. The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?
Honore De Balzac
#36. What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Arthur Helps
#37. The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.
Franz Ernst Neumann
#39. Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.
Wallace Stegner
#40. The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
Andrew Carnegie
#41. In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
Gottfried Leibniz
#43. 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
#44. 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
#46. The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
Thomas A. Edison
#47. One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.
Frederick Lenz
#48. If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.
E. O. Wilson
#49. The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. The greatest revolutionary innovation, Madison's discovery of the federal principle for the foundation of large republics,
Hannah Arendt
#51. Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.
Tina Fey
#52. The "question" is the smallest and greatest unit of discovery.
Ted Agon
#53. There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why.
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
#55. The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"
Robert Ballard
#56. The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.
Greg Graffin
#58. Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.
John Henry Wigmore
#60. 'Plutona' is the story of five kids who find the body of the world's greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It's about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually.
Jeff Lemire
#61. Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
John Herschel
#62. The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.
Brad Pitt
#63. The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
Robert L. Park
#64. Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
James McBride
#65. The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
Bertrand Russell
#66. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.
Yuval Noah Harari
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