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I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a for...

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It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as inc...

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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater si...

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On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...

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What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...

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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...

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The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she l...

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a se...

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it w...

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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perha...

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To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, i...

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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit ...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any p...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable.""You enjoy being nurt...

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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H. L. MenckenThe Artist: A Drama Without Words

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

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[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators...

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A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

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Isaac AsimovAdding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery...

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No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

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The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as tha...

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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow...

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My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know...

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Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know...

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And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to res...

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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into...

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, ...

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Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

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Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He...

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Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through cons...

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The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't...

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It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...

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They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the s...

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo...

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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in purs...

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Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...

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Melvin SchwartzPrinciples of Electrodynamics

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not bei...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

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Nadine GordimerThe Quotable Gordimer; or

What I learned on my own I still remember

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practic...

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Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay d...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Think of a "discovery" as an act that moves the arrival of information from a later point in time to...

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Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

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Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been de...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for ...

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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enoug...

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but al...

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That night he wrote in his diary, "Challenge a remaining taboo." It was that simple. He had always w...

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Robert Anton WilsonSchrödinger's Cat Trilogy

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does ...

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Robert ArdreyThe Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

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Robert ArdreyThe Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges....

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As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to rec...

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Ruskin BondThe Lamp is Lit: Leaves from a Journal

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new stree...

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Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

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The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...

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Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own lab...

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I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of...

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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hy...

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Stephen Jay GouldThe Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

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Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow...

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Thomas KuhnThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from...

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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

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It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Geor...

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Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I...

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Truman CapoteAnswered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yo...

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Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with ...

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Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own...

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Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.