Quotes About Discoveries

Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.

The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice is being transformed by these inventions.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Universities are no longer the intellectual centers of the country. The very idea is preposterous. Universities are the backwater. Don't look so surprised. I'm not saying anything you don't know. Since World War II, all the really important discoveries have come out of private laboratories.

form is only a beginning. It is the combination of feelings and a function; shapes and things that come to one in connection with the discoveries made as one goes into the wood that pull it together and give meaning to form. James Krenov A Cabinetmaker's Notebook

While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially on my mother's side.

explaining how a bucolic, lightly populated county like Norfolk could produce twenty-seven thousand archaeological finds a year, more than any other county in England.

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.

En la carrera, extremadamente competitiva, por publicar nuevos descubrimientos, se escribieron más artículos sobre teoría cuántica en Gotinga que en Copenhague, Cavendish o cualquier sitio del mundo.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

contents of the guts of several animals.46 The discoveries near Chengjiang demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that sedimentary rocks can preserve soft-bodied fossils of great antiquity and in exquisite detail, thereby challenging the idea that the absence of Precambrian ancestors

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

There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.

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.

Science's best-known victories were those of Copernicanism and Darwinism.

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

There were disappointments. Things you couldn't know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn't wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.

There are so many problems in the world worth working on and so many discoveries to make, you have to make a choice. My preference is to focus my efforts on solving problems that will help people.

Iraq is the last great frontier in the Middle East … . In Iraq, 80 per cent of the oil wells ever drilled have been discoveries. —David Horgan, chief executive of the Irish oil company Petrel, January 20072

The "whole problem of heredity has undergone a complete revolution," Bateson declared. Mendel's discoveries could at last mature into a true science. Bateson christened it genetics.