Quotes about discovery
discovery nothing-new
I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew. Leo Tolstoy
discovery gone-away people
I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away Peter Gabriel
discovery obvious
The great discoveries are usually obvious. Phil Crosby
discovery together movement
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
discovery mind quiet
You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems. Ramana Maharshi
discovery light internet
How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge. Rainbow Rowell
discovery fundamentals debt
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. Satyajit Ray
discovery effort special
When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge. Leo Strauss
discovery may dread
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. Joseph Heller
discovery creative intuition
Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition. Karl Popper
discovery ideas creating
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. Joseph Priestley
discovery luxury people
Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people. Julianne Nicholson
discovery people progress
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future ... If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it m may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply the ... My own belief is that this is a more likely line of progress than trying to guess at physical pictures. Paul Dirac
discovery secret manifest
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden. Paracelsus
discovery self training
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. Emanuel Steward
discovery desire transformation
The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true. John O'Donohue
discovery gold railroads
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
discovery problem identification
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself John Dewey
discovery drawing records
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself. John Berger
discovery engineering thanks
The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. Joe Harris
discovery vocabulary different
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time. Joan Miro
discovery goes-on want
What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
discovery faces habit
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. Lord Kelvin
discovery measurement physics
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
discovery interesting world
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. Malcolm Bradbury
discovery use has-beens
Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
discovery yield tree
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there. Mahatma Gandhi
discovery america people
America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire. Jimmy Carter
discovery lessons point
The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward. Taylor Branch
discovery early existed far humans north
The discovery that early humans could have existed this far north this long ago was startling. Chris Stringer
discovery hides man mission mist mixture throws truth unique
THE discovery of Truth is the unique mission of man. Man is a mixture of Maya and Madhava; the Maya throws a mist which hides the Madhava.
discovery challenges tests
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. Edward Teller
discovery greek world
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world. Edith Hamilton