New Discoveries Quotes:

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Proclamation, Inspirational Science

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

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

- Andre Gide

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Taking Risks, Newness

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

- William Lawrence Bragg

topic: Knowledge, Learning, Science, Inspirational Science, Quantum Theory

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Home, Adventure, Character, Inspirational Adventure Time, Inspirational Vacation

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

- Joseph Henry

topic: Discovery, Roots, Mind, New Discoveries

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

- Lord Kelvin

source: "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.

topic: Discovery, Measurement, Physics, All That Remains, Discovery In Science

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

- Christiaan Barnard

topic: Life, Believe, Discovery, New Discoveries

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

- Humphry Davy

source: "Self Help; With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance". Book by Sameul Smiles, Arc Manor LLC, p. 240, 2008.

topic: Failure, Discovery, Important, New Discoveries

When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

- William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

source: William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

topic: Discovery, Mind, Trying, Discovery In Science, New Discoveries

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

- Claude M. Bristol

source: Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

topic: Motivational, Discovery, Achievement, Discovery And Invention, New Discoveries

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Discovery, Curiosity, Doubt, New Discoveries

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Discovery, Important, World, Propositions, New Discoveries

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

- Nikola Tesla

topic: Men, Discovery, Enabling, Easier Life, Great Scientist

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

- Steven Morrissey

topic: Thinking, Artist, Discovery, New Discoveries

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

source: Source: blogs.edweek.org

topic: Discovery, Gains, Depth, Breadth, New Discoveries

As new discoveries are causing all-penetrating physical lights so to abound as that, as has been said, we shall soon not know where in the world to get any darkness, so our new facilities for every sort of communication work to reduce privacy much within its former limits.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Communication, Light, Discovery, New Discoveries

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

- Johannes Stark

topic: Light, Discovery, Facts, Discrete, Electromagnetic Waves

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

- Fred Upton

topic: Past, Discovery, Years, Oil And Gas, Pace Of Change

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

- Edgar Quinet

source: Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.87

topic: Discovery, Wish, Orthodoxy, New Discoveries

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

- James Burgh

source: James Burgh (1816). “Of prudence”, p.38

topic: Loss, Discovery, Opponents, New Discoveries

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.

- James Nicoll

source: Usenet article, 2005.

topic: Discovery, Wells, Well Written, New Discoveries

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

- Jay Samit

source: Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

topic: Discovery, Use, Something New, New Discoveries

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

- James Dyson

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Discovery, Dare To Be Different, Wrong Thinking

The song Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus, And nightly, new discoveries are made Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and love, Which give the understanding larger room, And swell the hymn with ever-growing praise.

- Robert Pollok

source: Robert Pollok (1868). “The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author”, p.155

topic: Song, Discovery, Hymns, Power And Love, New Discoveries

apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.

- Margaret Benson

source: Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”

topic: Opportunity, Discovery, Law, Discovery In Science, New Discoveries

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.

- Sylvester Stallone

topic: Life Changing, Discovery, Broken, New Discoveries

I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Country, Discovery, Layers, New Discoveries, Kurosawa

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

- Franz Kafka

source: Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

topic: Eye, Discovery, Disappear, New Discoveries

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Children, Thinking, Yield, One Way, New Discoveries

Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.

- Waziyatawin

topic: Lying, Believe, Technology, Technological Advancement, Western Medicine

There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something. But the universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about and there will be always young people brilliant who are going to make new discoveries.

- Ahmed H. Zewail

source: Source: www.nobelprize.org

topic: Book, Thinking, Discovery, New Discoveries

We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries to market in Canada, and commercialize them here, and stay here through successive stages of growth. But they can only do it with better government policies that give them more powerful incentive.

- Chris Alexander

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Powerful, Government, Discovery, Research And Development, Government Policy

It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

- Larry Wilmore

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Proven Wrong, New Discoveries

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

- Brian Stableford

topic: Technology, Opportunity, Discovery, Discovery In Science, New Discoveries

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "Wizard Edison". The Newark Advocate, January 2, 1903.

topic: Taken, Discovery, Medicine, New Discoveries

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Memories, Lying, Past, Martial Arts Inspirational, Past Memories

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

- John Herschel

topic: Discovery, Facts, Clue, New Discoveries

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

- Jonathan Edwards

topic: Gratitude, Greatness, Discovery, New Discoveries

I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.

- Olivia Wilde

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Teenager, Adventure, Thinking, New Discoveries

The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.

- George Coyne

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Christian, Discovery, Long, New Discoveries

Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.

- Benjamin Thompson

topic: Distance, Discovery, Use, Latitude, Latitude And Longitude

Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.

- Louise J. Kaplan

topic: Dream, Art, Past, Infancy Is, New Discoveries

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

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

- David Attenborough

topic: Discovery, Missing, Trying, New Discoveries

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Discovery, Ideas, Joy, New Discoveries

It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.

- Howard Whitley Eves

topic: Mean, Math, Discovery, Bootstraps, New Discoveries

Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.

- Thomas George Bonney

topic: Truth, Struggle, Men, New Discoveries

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

- Warren Weaver

source: Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

topic: Discovery, Order, Revelations, New Discoveries