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Quotes About Discoveries

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs
~ Levi-Strauss, Claude
Semiconductor research and the Nobel Prize in physics seem to be contradictory since one may come to the conclusion that such a complicated system like a semiconductor is not useful for very fundamental discoveries.
~ Klaus von Klitzing
It strikes me as odd that we've made journeys with our social conditioning in certain areas, but not in others. The world is always changing; discoveries in technology and science relentlessly expose our dearest values as fictions.
~ Michaela Coel
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
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
~ Claude M. Bristol
Complexities of life originate from the curiousity of men about innovations. And from these innovations that brought new discoveries and inventions caused men's health to propagate complexity.
~ Unknown
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
~ Herbert Hoover
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
~ James Theodore Bent
The more paleontological discoveries that are made, the more that we realize our knowledge of dinosaur types is fairly complete, and no ancestral forms ever will be found because they do not exist.
~ Unknown
I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.
~ Ron Howard
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
~ Louis Leakey
But with Freddy I seemed to have the best sort of conversations, where our talk became exploratory and would lead on to new ideas, like thinking aloud, and in the process of clarifying improvisatory theories I always made useful discoveries about what I thought and felt.
~ Unknown
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
We know many truths; we have discovered many useful inventions. Let us console ourselves for not knowing possible connections between a spider and the ring of Saturn, and continue examining what is within our reach.
~ Voltaire
I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates.
~ Whitney Port
discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.
~ Philip Yancey
All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it would consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.
~ Italo Calvino
All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it should consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us, and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.
~ Italo Calvino
This story leads us to epiphanies—when we suddenly understand essential truths about life—which were the eighth wonder of life. Around the world, people were awestruck by philosophical insights, scientific discoveries, metaphysical ideas, personal realizations, mathematical equations, and sudden disclosures (such as a wife leaving her husband for his best friend) that transform life in an instant.
~ Dacher Keltner
And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.
~ John Fowles
Pope Alexander's most fateful decision was taken in 1493, when he made the all-important adjudication between Spain and Portugal over their recent territorial discoveries in Africa and
~ John Julius Norwich
In my opinion, ADD more aptly refers to Attention to Dreams and Discoveries, and ADHD describes Alert to Daydreams and Humorous Diversions—in
~ Unknown
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure
~ Herbert Hoover