Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've got 200 years' worth of scientific discovery and equipment locked away in the basement. All those items - around 6,000 objects - will be put on display.

Will Rogers

Wrigley was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag; so why not give them something to wag against.

John Garfield

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

We're very pleased and looking forward to the discovery.

Rupert Murdoch

We do recognize the fact that the share price at the moment is rotten, ... There's some disconnect between our company's growth and the share price.

Julie Gerberding

We don't want volunteers to flood in a discordant way.

Charles Kennedy

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

Jackie Robinson

discover the truth of today, and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.

Discount stores are doing very well, and home-oriented retailers are doing very well. But most of the others are dragging their heels.

Discount Grocery is so great for our situation.

Oscar Wilde

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Giorgio Moroder

Disco is music for dancing, and I know that the people will always want to dance.

Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.

There's often a gross disconnect between the public persona that people present and what their values actually are. The person that shows up for a focus group is often at variance from who people are in their private life.

There's no way you can discourage kids from going out and partying, so we want to encourage people to be as safe as possible.

Michael Shermer

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.

Sheena Easton

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

Nikola Tesla

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

Ray Bradbury

All education is self-discovery.

Rami Malek

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.

Michael Polanyi

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Pollan

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.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

Lucretius

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

Louis L'Amour

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

Michael Crichton

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

Michel de Montaigne

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.

Michel de Montaigne

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Marvin Minsky

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

John Ruskin

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 Polkinghorne

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

Norman Cousins

Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.