If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason. - Isaac Newton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches. - Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. - René Descartes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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When you see discovery numbers rise to the level that they are being addressed at board meetings, they are getting big. Corporations are getting angry because they think the law firms are not respecting the billable hours that are being charged for discovery. - Michael Clark Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate it can be apprehended only be a process of reasoning --which is a phenomenon. Nevertheless, the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought. Hurrah (therefore) for the noumenon - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. - Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. - Edgar Quinet Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting. - Chris Allsburg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time. - John Zorn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it. - Alan Wilson Watts Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity. - Karl Kraus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. - Abbe Pierre Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity. - Albert Hofmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. - Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. - Blaise Pascal Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration. - Burt Rutan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Discovery of new planets will help to understand how the solar system formed and evolved to current status and also how life forms in the solar system and universe. - Jian Ge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. - Paul Valery Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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We have already told AOL that it's likely we will need to do that discovery if the government relies on information provided by AOL regarding its search engine. And we've also so informed Microsoft. - Aden Fine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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If the government utilizes the information in any manner, we're very likely going to need to do follow-up discovery. - Aden Fine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love. - Ben Okri Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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