Quotes about discovery
discovery surprised until
Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!
discovery major plays role
What this discovery showed was that p11 plays a major role in mood. Paul Greengard
discovery explained found molecules nitrogen putting reservoir stuff takes transforms troubling
When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn't think were interesting and transforms all this stuff into something of biologic interest.
discovery perfect progress
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. C. Northcote Parkinson
discovery social social-change
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. C. L. R. James
discovery security certitude
Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries. Carl Jung
discovery psychics symbolism
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.
discovery cooking records
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
discovery years research-and-development
I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development. Bill Nye
discovery views medicine
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
discovery europe oil
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. Bob Beauprez
discovery humanity disparity
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity Bill Gates
discovery level love reach
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus. Lev Vygotsky
discovery average gorillas
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. Jared Diamond
discovery doubt moments
The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.
discovery tree brain
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction. Janet Frame
discovery discipline fields
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery. Bryant H. McGill
discovery imagine humans
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. Alan Lightman
discovery sky oil
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. Al Gore
discovery water mind
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind. Charles Kingsley
discovery numbers triumph
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.' Charles Babbage
discovery path firsts
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
discovery people mind
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. Blaise Pascal
discovery law use
Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later. Brian Greene
discovery found
Eureka! (I have found it!) Archimedes
discovery gold tests
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
discovery exciting good somewhat stunned
This really is an exciting discovery. I'm still somewhat stunned they have such good data.
discovery schemes
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries. Barbara Corcoran
discovery years america
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived. Barbara Ehrenreich
discovery life-is
Life is a re-discovery. Brian Blessed
discovery essentials needs
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans. Jane Hirshfield
discovery space fire
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish. Arthur C. Clarke
discovery self long
So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating. Arianna Huffington