Discovery Quotes:

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

topic: Science, Discovery, Intuition, Synchronicity, Instinct Intuition

The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

topic: Music, Discovery, Perception, Blues Music, Music Theory

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

topic: Knowledge, Discovery, Mind

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

topic: Science, Discovery, Taught, Make In India, India Independence Day

- Albert Hofmann

topic: Reality, Discovery, Meditation, Scientific Discovery, Deeper Meaning

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

- Albert Hofmann

topic: Discovery, Serendipity, Research, Pharmaceutical

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

- Albert Pike

topic: Men, Discovery, Doubt, Prerogative, Accompany

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

source: Chairman Habil Khorakiwala's speech of Wockhardt Ltd., economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 2013.

topic: Science, Thinking, Discovery, Medical Research, Market Research

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

topic: Congratulations, Discovery, Mind, Innovation And Business, Meetings Of The Minds

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

source: Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in "Bridging the Present and the Future: IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference Record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985", p. 14, 1985.

topic: Learning, Thinking, Discovery

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

topic: Discovery, Two, Judging, Variance

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Discovery, Land, Television, Land Conservation

Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Love, Reality, Discovery

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

- Alec Soth

topic: Photography, Discovery, Findings

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Team, Discovery, Ideas, Penicillin

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Discovery, Deep Thought, Might, Penicillin, Untrue

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Discovery, Triumph, Problem, Penicillin

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

topic: Discovery, Mind, Cooperation, Environmental Stewardship, Cooperation And Collaboration

Grand telegraphic discovery today â€¦ Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish â€¦ the â€œtimbreâ€ of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

topic: Teamwork, Discovery, Mind

Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

topic: Discovery, Sound, Viva, Modification, Telegraph

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

topic: Determination, Discovery, Order

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

topic: Thinking, Discovery, Track

- Alexander Grothendieck

topic: Children, Discovery, Privilege

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

- Alexander Lowen

source: Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Adventure, Discovery, Self, Human Personality

And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!

- Alexander McCall Smith

source: Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.279, Hachette UK

topic: Mother, Discovery, Parent, Scorned

... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

- Alexander Shulgin

source: Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

topic: Mean, Discovery, Self

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a disagreeable thing....

- Alexander Smith

topic: Morning, Hair, Discovery

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

- Alfred Jarry

topic: Laughter, Discovery, Born

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Discovery, Agreement, Two, Two Nations, Two Lovers

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Discovery, Weapons, Facts, Abstraction

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

- Alice Hegan Rice

topic: Spiritual, Thinking, Discovery

We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.

- Allan Savory

topic: Discovery, People, Creative, Observant, Livestock

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

- Alva Myrdal

topic: Communication, Discovery, Invention, Interchange, Reciprocal

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

- Amartya Sen

topic: Discovery, Choices, Identity

Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

- Amit Ray

topic: Yoga, Discovery, Energy, Energy Of Life

The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

- Anais Nin

topic: Mean, Discovery, People, Personal Stories

I want to make my own discoveriesâ€¦â€¦.penetrate the evil which attracts me

- Anais Nin

topic: Discovery, Evil, Want

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Discovery, Finding Yourself, Sometimes

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

- Andre Gide

topic: Beautiful, Sadness, Discovery

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

- Andre Kertesz

topic: Art, Discovery, Photographer

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Artist, Discovery, Order

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

- Andre Weil

topic: Past, Issues, Discovery

Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.

- Andre-Marie Ampere

source: "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 159, 1996.

topic: Knowledge, Simple, Discovery, Popular Opinion

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Men, Discovery, Doe

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted ...

- Ann Radcliffe

source: Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.187

topic: Disappointment, Discovery, Mind, Perfidy

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Writing, Journey, Discovery

Love this in the film, â€œVelvet Goldmineâ€ it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

- Anna Sui

topic: Discovery, Thrill, Velvet

The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now, been plumbed and digested. In this book, Chandak Sengoopta offers both a history of hormone discovery and a chronicle of how this discovery transformed our concepts of the body and how our existing concepts of sex and sexuality, in turn, informed our concepts for understanding hormones.

- Anne Fausto-Sterling

topic: Sex, Book, Discovery, Quintessence

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Adventure, Discovery, Flying

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

- Anne Truitt

source: Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love Is, Discovery, Grace, Mutual Understanding, Autonomy

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

- Annette Curtis Klause

source: Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.123, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: Mean, Discovery, Different

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Thinking, Discovery, Expectations, Cold Outside

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

- Anthony Eden

topic: Time, Discovery, Succeed, Old Time

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

- Anthony James Leggett

source: Interview with Joanna Rose, www.nobelprize.org. December 09, 2003.

topic: Thinking, Discovery, People, Way Of Thinking, Conventional Ways

The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

- Anthony Lawlor

source: Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

topic: Journey, Discovery, Soul

It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.

- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Discovery

[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Hard Work, Men, Discovery

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Discovery, People, Paper, Ingenious

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

topic: Ocean, Discovery, Joy, Pure Joy

Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

Eureka! (I have found it!)

topic: Running, Jumping, Discovery, Displacement

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.

topic: Discovery, Found

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

topic: Beautiful, Discovery, Broken, Boiler, New Toys

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.

topic: Discovery, Gold, Tests

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Discovery, Self, Long, Suffocating

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle

source: Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

topic: Journey, Discovery, Self, Important Relationships

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

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Discovery

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.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Motivational, Discovery, Self, Journey Of Self Discovery, Self 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

topic: Running, Discovery, Long, Discovery And Invention

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

topic: Fire, Discovery, Space, Space Travel

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.

- Arthur H

topic: Confidence, Discovery, Made, Compton

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

- Arthur Helps

topic: Blessing, Discovery, America, Discovery Of America

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

- Arthur Keith

source: Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

topic: Discovery, Agriculture, 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.

- Arthur Keith

topic: Agriculture, Discovery, Size, Locality

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Reality, Discovery, Order, Frame Of Reference

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Reality, Discovery, Psychological, Clearing, Roadblock

Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

- Arthur Kroker

topic: Space, Keys, Discovery, Music Theory, Reflexes

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Discovery, World, Quests

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

- Arthur Quiller-Couch

source: Arthur Quiller-Couch (2016). “On The Art of Reading”, p.8, Youcanprint

topic: Mistake, Discovery, Watches

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

- Arthur Symons

source: Arthur Symons (1906). “An Introduction to the Study of Browning”

topic: Discovery, Criticism, Treasure, Buried Treasure

Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.

- Arthur William Galston

topic: Believe, Science, Discovery

For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.

- Audrey Flack

source: Audrey Flack, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Hills, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery (1992). “Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990”, Harry N Abrams Inc

topic: Art, Reality, Discovery, Contributing

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

- Audrey Tautou

source: Interview, www.aboutfilm.com.

topic: Discovery, Years, Feelings

Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence ...

- Augustus Pitt Rivers

topic: Odds, Discovery, Doubt, Pottery, Archaeology

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Discovery, Venture, Opinion, Advisable

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

- Azar Nafisi

topic: Reading, Reality, Discovery, Pleasure Of Reading, Replica

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.

- B. B. Warfield

topic: Inspiration, Discovery, Criticism, Compelled

It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Discovery, Appreciate, Sacred Texts

Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

- Banesh Hoffmann

source: Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.4, Courier Corporation

topic: Discovery, Gas Stations, Details, Discovery In Science, Garage

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Adventure, Winning, Discovery

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

- Barnett Newman

topic: Black And White, Discovery, Self

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Discovery, Mind, Essentials

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

- Barry Long

source: "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

topic: Discovery, Self, Mind

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

- Barry Long

source: "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

topic: Men, Discovery, Self, Self Discovery

The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into court....During the period 1935 to early 1939, the leading laboratory for electronic or energy medicine in the USA, in New Jersy, was independently verifying Rife's discoveries...(this) laboratory was "mysteriously" burned to the ground.....Rife's treatment was ruthlessly suppressed by the AMA's Morris Fishbein.

- Barry Lynes

topic: Cancer, Discovery, Usa, Energy Medicine, Morris

The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.

- Bartolome de las Casas

topic: Discovery, Land, Goal, Divine Providence

"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.

- Bartolome de las Casas

topic: Discovery, Suffering, Tears, Spaniards, Half A Century

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

- Bede Griffiths

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Discovery, Brahman, Small Spaces

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

- Ben Harper

topic: Life Lesson, Boys, Discovery

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

- Bengt I. Samuelsson

topic: Knowledge, Discovery, Imagination, Use Of Knowledge

Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.

- Bengt I. Samuelsson

topic: Science, Discovery, Order

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

- Bengt I. Samuelsson

topic: Science, Discovery, Unexpected, Unlimited Possibilities, Unexpected Places

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Writing, Discovery, Language

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Discovery, Progress, Comfort

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Stars, Wine, Discovery, Wine Toast, Witty Wine

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

- Benjamin Tucker

topic: Mean, Discovery, Socialism

It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown

- Bernadette Roberts

topic: Moving, Cutting, Discovery, Suspended

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

- Bernard Crick

source: "In Defence Of Politics". Book by Bernard Crick, 1962.

topic: Government, Discovery, Support

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

- Bernard Haisch

topic: Discovery, Answers, Answering Questions, Questioning Beliefs, Scientific Discovery

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.

- Bernard Lonergan

source: Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.77, University of Toronto Press

topic: New Beginnings, Discovery, Creative, Supplements

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

- Bertolt Brecht

source: "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

topic: Art, Reality, Discovery, Informative, Prometheus

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Truth, Discovery, Doe, Suppression

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Discovery, People, Important, Wrong Person, Scientific Discovery

Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

- Bill Nye

topic: Discovery, Views, Medicine, New Discoveries

I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

- Bill Nye

topic: Discovery, Years, Empowering, Research And Development

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

- Bill Nye

topic: Meaningful, Powerful, Discovery, Creation Stories

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

- Billy Collins

topic: Writing, Discovery, Agendas

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Discovery, People, Mind

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

- Bob Beauprez

topic: Discovery, Europe, Oil

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

- Bob Beauprez

topic: Country, Discovery, Oil

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

- Boris Pasternak

source: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1976). “My sister, life and other poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

topic: Artist, Discovery, Overwhelmed

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something...

- Brad Leithauser

topic: Flower, Optimistic, Discovery, Haphazard, Hopscotch

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Artist, Discovery, Actors

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Atheist, Loss, Discovery, Loss Of Faith

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.

- Brand Blanshard

topic: Thinking, Discovery, Talking, Hardy, Kepler

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Running, Men, Discovery, Voyages Of Discovery, Ragamuffin Gospel

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.

- Brian Swimme

source: What Is Enlightenment? Magazine Interview, storyoftheuniverse.org.

topic: Discovery, Hydrogen, Giraffe

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Discovery, Ends, Process

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Discovery, Imitation, Fixed

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

- Bruno Rossi

topic: Motivation, Men, Discovery

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Believe, Discovery, Secret

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

- Buffalo Bill

topic: Discovery, Giving, Surprise

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

- C. L. R. James

topic: Discovery, Social, Social Change

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

topic: Weed, Discovery, Law, Parkinson's, Parkinson

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

topic: Discovery, Perfect, Progress, Headquarters

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.

- C. Vann Woodward

topic: War, Thinking, Discovery, Intellectual Growth

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

- Calvin Miller

source: Calvin Miller (1979). “The Finale”, Intervarsity Pr

topic: Discovery, Confirmation, Creeds

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Discovery, Cooking, Records

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

- Camille Flammarion

source: Camille Flammarion (1914). “Astronomy”

topic: Discovery, Sky, Leaving, Calculations, Neptune

One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Men, Discovery, Careers

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many a playwright's existence . . .. And since readings have become playwrights' main source of exposure, the nature of playwriting has changed to fit readings' needs. Investigation into what is eminently theatrical has been substituted - more and more these days - by what can simply come across and read well.

- Caridad Svich

topic: Reading, Discovery, Voice, Raison D'etre, Playwriting

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

topic: Discovery, Two, Broken

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Discovery, Woods, Violet, Retard

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

source: "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

topic: Truth, Discovery, Mathematical, Mathematical Equations

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

- Carl Jung

topic: Reflection, Discovery, Profound, Individuation

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

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

topic: Wise, Discovery, Today

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

topic: Believe, Discovery, Ideas, Resonance

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

topic: Discovery, Self, Events, Stellar

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

topic: Discovery, Innovation, Age