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Quotes About Discovery

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.
~ David P. Billington
The questions produced before studying the topic turned out to be much deeper and more exciting. It seemed that the formal study of the topic had quenched students' sense of its mystery.
~ David Perkins
Por desgracia, la mayoría de los médicos alópatas no está dispuesta a buscar la explicación para dichos trastornos motores en la alimentación ni están al tanto de los descubrimientos más recientes.
~ David Perlmutter
If you really want to be totally accurate about it, the day that really changed Abby's life wasn't the day she discovered her power. It was the day Ben sang to her in the Telekinesis lab.
~ David Pogue
Around 1840, a German anatomist named Jakob Henle began to suspect the existence of noxious particles—creatures or things—that were too small to be seen with a light microscope and yet able to transmit specific diseases.
~ David Quammen
Two men, on opposite sides of the world, had made the same great discovery at the same time.
~ David Quammen
But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds.
~ David Quammen
disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.
~ David Quammen
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
~ David Rockefeller
How come joggers always seem to be the ones to find bodies? Makes me glad I don't exercise.
~ David Rosenfelt
A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.
~ David Ruggles
More than amazing. It might actually be the skull of Moses. Wow. Just wow.
~ David S. Brody
The white powder of gold stuff?" Cam asked. "Yes. I was in the lab all night working with it.
~ David S. Brody
Reminds me of a joke. A cowboy lost his Bible in the desert. A couple of months later a cow wanders over with a book in its mouth. The cowboy takes the book—it's his lost Bible. 'What a miracle; praise the Lord!' the cowboy exclaims. 'Not really,' says the cow. 'Your name is on the inside cover.
~ David S. Brody
You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been?
~ David S. Brody
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
~ David Sarnoff
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
~ David Sarnoff
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
~ David Sedaris
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
~ David Sedaris
The first part of this book presents a new view of the mechanisms of cancer. This view is based on the fundamental but still little-known workings of the immune system, on the discovery of the inflammatory mechanisms underlying the growth of tumors, and on the possibility of blocking their spread by preventing new blood vessels from nourishing them.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
In the car, however, I see a stranger. And yet he is a stranger whose every part I know intimately.
~ David Sheff
Hating the scientific method is hating learning.
~ David Silverman
We didn't find our rightful audience, but from the ashes of the AC scene, we shall rise again – the Phoenix always does. Our true audience will find its way to us eventually. It's not unusual for a false audience to come first.
~ David Sinclair
Are you one of the dwellers in the wood? Neither by land nor by sea shall they find us. But, when the time comes, we shall find them.
~ David Sinclair