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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.
The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.
The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the final discovery and catches the bad guy.
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.
Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?
In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth.
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
People think acting is just memorizing lines and doing facial expressions. No it's about traveling along a path of discovery, intention and connection.
I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.
There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.
Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.
'Spring Awakening' was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way - that is probably the thing I miss the most.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.
If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.
This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.
It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.
I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.
The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.
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