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Quotes About Discoveries

So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some kind of synthesis, some musical language which will allow us just to write music.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
~ Reggie Watts
Every possibility already exists. All knowledge, all discoveries, and all inventions of the future, are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. Every creation and invention in history has also been drawn from the Universal Mind, whether the person consciously knew that or not.
~ Rhonda Byrne
There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.
~ Stephen Richards
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
~ Heinrich Hertz
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
~ Alva Myrdal
There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations on the planet. For all we know, interesting things are happening there all the time.
~ Heidi Hammel
Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.
~ Marlon James
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
~ Ethel Merman
magic circle of imperial capitalism: credit financed new discoveries; discoveries led to colonies; colonies provided profits; profits built trust; and trust translated into more credit.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Archaeologists have discovered sites where entire herds were butchered annually in such ways. There are even sites where fences and obstacles were erected in order to create artificial traps and slaughtering grounds.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Clay, they discovered, has two basic properties essential to life: the capacity to store and the ability to transfer energy.
~ Zecharia Sitchin
Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.
~ Richard Pascale
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
~ John Moody
With new oil and gas discoveries, Africa's energy exporters will have to invest in defence capability and work with other Indian Ocean powers to ensure security of sea lanes.
~ Sanjaya Baru
Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.
~ James E. Faust
We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
~ Zahi Hawass
There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
~ Pardis Sabeti
One can talk about cars and X rays, of course, with a certain amount of feeling, but what else can one do about the countless other inventions and discoveries that nowadays every single day brings forth, other than to marvel at human inventiveness in general, which in the long run gets to be too tiresome!
~ Robert Musil
Las almas gemelas no son tan difíciles de encontrar como yo solía pensar. Es increíble ver cuántas puedes encontrar en este mundo.
~ L.M. Montgomery
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.
~ Leonard Adleman
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
~ Anthony F. C. Wallace
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.
~ Julian Schwinger