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Quotes About Discovery

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.
~ Unknown
Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.
~ Unknown
We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
All we know so far is what doesn't work.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
~ Diana Ross
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
~ Ernest Rutherford
Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.
~ Bill Jay
I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.
~ Danny Boyle
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
~ Donna Tartt
Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.
~ George Herbert Palmer
Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.
~ Unknown
[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.
~ Unknown
James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.
~ Albert Einstein
I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.
~ Albert Einstein
I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.
~ Aleksandra Mir
To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.
~ Unknown
Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.
~ Algis Budrys
Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
~ Arthur Miller
Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!
~ Axel
I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.
~ Unknown
La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.
~ Blaise Pascal