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The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.
I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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.
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science
I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.
Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.
There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.
I love going to museums, especially the Met, because there's always room for discovery, or the Neue Galerie. It's a great jewel box.
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.
If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history.
I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.
Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.
I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.
I love watching programs about Discovery Channel and just reading New Scientist, and all that kind of stuff. Im just fascinated by it.
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.
Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.