Quotes by category:Discovery

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

Antonio Damasio

ocean joy discovery

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

Archibald MacLeish

ignorance discovery world

Eureka! Eureka! by Archimedes

Eureka! Eureka!

jumping running discovery

Eureka! (I have found it!). by Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!).

found discovery

Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.

broken discovery beautiful

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the p... by Archimedes

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

tests gold discovery

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure. by Arianna Huffington

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

Arianna Huffington

journey discovery adventure

So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

Arianna Huffington

self discovery long

Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.

military secret discovery

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Armstrong Williams

eye discovery beautiful

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

discovery motivational sports

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

Arthur C. Clarke

space fire discovery

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Arthur C. Clarke

running discovery science

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

Arthur Conan Doyle

real law discovery

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

confidence truth discovery

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe... by Arthur Helps

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

blessing discovery america

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civi... by Arthur Keith

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

agriculture discovery firsts

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

agriculture groups discovery

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

plot discovery world

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.

Arthur Koestler

real discovery science

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