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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.
I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.
Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.
Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.
My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.
Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.