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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on.
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their own 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.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
We always try to leave room for the actors to come in and make discoveries on set, in their interpretation of the scene. The shot list is scaffolding.
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
Some of the most important discoveries, innovations, and advances in our history have come from those seeking a new life in America.
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.
If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.
Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.
The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.
I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.
Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.
I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.
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.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?
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.
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.
