Quotes by Discovery Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli. Alexander Graham Bell discovery today firsts Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else. Alexander Grothendieck privilege discovery children Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind. Alexander Lowen self discovery adventure And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right! Alexander McCall Smith parent mother discovery ... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record? Alexander Shulgin self discovery mean 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. Alexander Smith hair discovery morning Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement. Alexandra Stoddard journey discovery adventure The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville government discovery america Disgrace is the synonym of discovery. Alfred de Musset synonym disgrace discovery Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory. Alfred Jarry born laughter discovery It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life. Alfred Korzybski two-nations agreement discovery To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead discovery two science The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty. Alfred North Whitehead matter discovery beauty The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. Alfred North Whitehead weapons discovery facts The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation. Alfred North Whitehead airplane discovery science The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery. Alice Hegan Rice spiritual discovery thinking Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. Alice Walker self joy discovery Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery. Alison Hawthorne Deming moments discovery way I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being. Alison Hawthorne Deming ignorance writing discovery I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and I thought, "I wonder why these images are abrading against each other. I wonder what happens if put them in a poem and explore them." I'm trying to learn something every time I write a poem. Alison Hawthorne Deming mind writing discovery «1234567891011»