Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Eldridge

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Paul Erdos

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 Berg

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.

Marshall McLuhan

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

Marshall McLuhan

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.

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.

Julia Sawalha

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

Leonhard Euler

Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle...

Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Nhat Hanh

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Noam Chomsky

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Graham Moore

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

Murray Rothbard

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

Myles Munroe

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Milton Friedman

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

Julian Barnes

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

Marcus Samuelsson

Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

Margaret Bourke-White

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.

Jennifer Haigh

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

He actually just picked out the trash bag, and it felt heavier than what he expected, ... He looked inside, and that's when he discovered it.

Jay Leno

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election...

Ernst Mayr

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

After you've done the numbers, and it's not rocket science to do that, you may have a gap. The earlier you know that, the better. The time to discover that is not when you're retiring.

Carolyn Porco

After what we've discovered with Cassini, if we don't get an extended mission, then there's no hope for anybody.

Then again, that's why we're exploring Jupiter and its moons -- to discover these unusual phenomena.