Quotes About Discoveries

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

Qué maravillosos descubrimientos haríamos en astronomía si pudiésemos sobrevivir a nuestras predicciones y confirmarlas, observando la marcha y el regreso de los cometas, con los cambios de movimiento del sol, la luna y las estrellas!

I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There's nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

Eu acredito que ela tem o tipo de magia que provoca revoluções e promove grandes descobertas. Não há nada que eu goste mais do que observar Gabriela no meio de um grupo de pessoas. Você sabe o que ela me lembra? Uma rosa perfumada num bouquet de flores artificiais.

One of the greatest achievements of modern science was, that it proved the indestructibility of energy through all the ceaseless transformations which it undergoes in the universe.

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.

There was only one trial of Galileo, and yet it seems there were a thousand—the suppression of science by religion, the defense of individualism against authority, the clash between revolutionary and establishment, the challenge of radical new discoveries to ancient beliefs, the struggle against intolerance for freedom of thought and freedom of speech.

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

There are only a few really high-profile archaeological cultures in the world: Egypt and the Maya.

The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture. Even as Strong's work showed definitively that Mosquitia was not part of the Maya realm, however, his discoveries raised more questions than they answered.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe.

As for abstruse thought and profound researches, ·nature also says·, I prohibit them, and if you engage in them I will severely punish you by the brooding melancholy they bring, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception your announced discoveries will meet with when you publish them. Be a philosopher, ·nature continues·, but amidst all your philosophy be still a man.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

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For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.

Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries.