Quotes About Discovery

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure.

The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The word comes from the same root as eureka.

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

He had no idea what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong. It turned out that the heart of the fire had not been in the kitchen but in the basement beneath where the men had stood.

Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior

While writing the article that reported these findings, Amos and I discovered that we enjoyed working together.

Psychology has come a long way.

Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician, published the first scientific paper suggesting the use of fingerprints as an identification technique.

Meehl discovered that clinicians and other professionals are distressingly weak in what they often see as their unique strength: the ability to integrate information.

Amos and I stumbled on the central flaw in Bernoulli's theory by a lucky combination of skill and ignorance.

Regression to the mean was discovered and named late in the nineteenth century by Sir Francis Galton, a half cousin of Charles Darwin and a renowned polymath

Links, sagte Humboldt. Wieso links, fragte Bonpland. Also rechts, sagte Humboldt. Aber warum rechts? Zum Teufel, rief Humboldt, jetzt werde es ihm zu blöd.

Chi viaggia in posti lontani, disse, apprende molte cose. Qualcuna anche su se stesso.

Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself

First, we exist, and next, we create ourselves.