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The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.
I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.
In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.
'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not.
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.
They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.
The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.
'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.