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Quotes About Discoveries

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
~ Milan Kundera
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
~ David Ricardo
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
~ Tori Amos
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
~ Carl Jung
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.
~ Anne Rice
Who, who, does not have their basket of trips? It
~ Elizabeth Strout
The worst part of modern technology is the way it robs you of the found moments. The little discoveries, even intimacy!
~ Ashley Jones
I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.
~ Audrey Tautou
Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.
~ B.J. Fogg
I got handed all of these amazing opportunities, especially travel opportunities.
~ Selah Louise Marley
I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.
~ Herbert Hoover
we were able to acknowledge that all these mutually contradictory opinions were right on some point in these complicated interrelationships, and to demonstrate that they had discovered something that was correct.
~ Sigmund Freud
JOCASTA: So clear in this case were the oracles, so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say; what God discovers need of, easily he shows to us himself.
~ Sophocles
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
~ John Polkinghorne
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
~ Emily Greene Balch
Be reckless. What's the worst that can happen? We're hoping to be surprised by some unrestrained part of ourselves that can't be expressed in our ordinary lives. The discoveries we're after can only surprise us when we're ready to accept whatever we uncover.
~ Barbara Feldon
Whatever faith you have you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science. There's something ignoble about not being willing to look at what we've found about the way the world is and trying to reconcile it with whatever you've decided to believe in for yourself.
~ Steven Weinberg
Q: What is the definition of an archaeologist? A: A person whose career is in ruins.
~ Scott McNeely
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The history of cosmic theories, in particular, may without exaggeration be called a history of collective obsessions and controlled schizophrenias; and the manner in which some of the most important individual discoveries were arrived at reminds one more of a sleepwalker's performance than an electronic's brain.
~ Arthur Koestler
Its never the miles of traveling that counts, its what you have done along the way
~ Narjit Singh
The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated with its thought and phraseology. And as he is intimately acquainted with it in all its parts, so he is continually quoting it and constantly surprising us with fresh discoveries, in novel collocations, of its variety, beauty and impressiveness.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Ich für meinen Teil denke während einer Verfolgungsjagd gern nach. Keiner stört einen, man ist allein und all die Problemchen werden bedeutungslos. Das wichtigste Thema heißt natürlich: "Wie bleibe ich am Leben?", aber auch andere Dinge sieht man in neuem Licht, was zu ganz neuen und manchmal überraschenden Erkenntnissen führt.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries
~ Benjamin Franklin