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“The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.”

“In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.”

Law Principles Effects Events Limits Discovery Tasks Uncertainty Uncertainty Principle

Book:A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

“Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.”

Firsts May Process Difficult Discovery Library Uncertain Laboratory Rediscovery

Author:John William Strutt

“Writing is always a voyage of discovery.”

Writing Discovery Voyages Voyages Of Discovery

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.”

Mind Process Teacher Discovery Response Unexpected Mutual Open Mind Pupils Keep An Open Mind

Book:Up the Down Staircase

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”

Men Mind Heart May Book Found Plans Discovery Library Experiments Preserves Recipes Prescriptions Daily Living

Author:Georges Duhamel

“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.”

Men Should Mean Real Eye Used Glory Discovery Seeking Landscape Great Men Voyages New Eyes Voyages Of Discovery

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.”

Reality Discovery

Book:Poems of Fernando Pessoa

Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'”

Ifs Men Long Said Self Hands Joy Forever Journey Discovery Angel Add Satisfaction Creator Self Discovery Contentment Exploration Legends Long Life Life Journey

Book:How to Get what You Want

Source: How to Get what You Want

“For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.”

Spiritual Culture Spirituality Religious Modern Discovery Tradition Rising Timeless Modern Science Unification Great Religious

Author:John Hagelin

“Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.”

Thinking Want Writing Trying Style Discovery

Author:Lynne Tillman

“I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.”

People Thinking Writing Years Sometimes Can Do Fiction Students Wall Discovery Work Out Working It Sophisticated Sequence

Author:T.C. Boyle

“That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?”

Humans Human Beings Standards Discovery Average Data Capture Surprising Isms

Author:L. Todd Rose

“One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way of looking at any situation, person, or condition.”

Way Persons Made Situation Conditions Discovery Upset Another Way Liberating

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.”

Feels Discovery

Author:David Rees

“I think that the marriage of academic medical centers and academicians with the private sector is a very, is a marriage made in heaven because it's the best way to get basic discoveries from the laboratory into new therapeutics for our patients.”

Thinking Way Made Heaven Discovery Patient Medical Best Way Academic Laboratory Private Sector

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.”

Boys Discovery England Scared Aliens Boston Blocked Massachusetts Coastal

Author:William Monahan

“I was always fascinated with animals and I wanted to go to the zoo all the time. When I got older and I realized the animals bite, and when they do, most of the time you don't survive it kind of crushed my dream and now I just want to WATCH Discovery Channel.”

Want Kind Dream Wanted Animal Watches Discovery I Realized Bites Fascinated Crushed Zoos

Author:Marcus Hudson

“The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.”

Essentials Discovery Our Time

Author:Thomas Keating

“Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckhart accords with the real medieval teacher of that name, but there are certainly images in his work that help us work our way past several of the aporia with which we're confronted in our attempts to think about God.”

Thinking Way Real Helping Past Certain Names Teacher Century Figures Discovery Related Medieval Accord 19th Century

Author:George Pattison

“In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.”

People Way Firsts Two Would Be Energy Dark Race Car Amount Discovery Horse Oil Internals Texas Electric Obscure Steam Gasoline Pennsylvania Density Footnotes Combustion Electric Car Dark Horse

Author:Bill Gates

“Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.”

Stories Universe Father Development Ego Discovery Absolutes Cosmic Representation Idealism Accompany Transcendental Thesis

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.”

Has Beens Interesting Cities Discovery Pits Really Deep

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Term Youth Calling Conflict Comfortable Discovery Suspense True Nature Thrillers Being Afraid

Author:Christopher Rice

“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.”

Knows Firsts Country Remember Film Saws Discovery First Time I Realized Fascinated Layers Shocked New Discoveries Kurosawa

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“One of the most important discoveries I made in those early years was that to succeed at natural farming, you have to get rid of your expectations. Such "products" of the mind are often incorrect or unrealistic . . . and can lead you to think you've made a mistake if they're not met.”

Ifs Thinking Years Mind Made Important Natural Mistake Products Mets Succeed Expectations Discovery Farming Made A Mistake

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

“I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs that sound that way - the emphasis being on the storytelling, but the arrangements and the orchestrations can be really varied - I found that to be, actually, a really joyful discovery.”

Way Writing Song Found Sound Listening Grew Grew Up Discovery Theater Musical Storytelling Joyful Arrangements Emphasis Musical Theater Orchestration

Author:Sara Bareilles

“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.”

Matter Mother Born Novel Ten Discovery Died Destructive Mary Anticipate Parables Mother Died Shelley Destructive Power

Author:Laura Mullen

“For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where diversity is shared - where I share with you my difference - that can be valuable. But the simple fact that we are unlike each other is a terrifying notion. I have often found myself in foreign settings where I became suddenly aware that I was not like the people around me. That, to me, is not a pleasant discovery.”

People Facts Values Found Differences Simple Share Brother Diversity Discovery Notion Killing Valuable Setting Settings Pleasant Ireland Northern Ireland Beirut

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.”

Thinking Discovery Clock Explosions Arrivals Scientific Discovery

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.”

“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.”

“It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.”

Important Ideas Use Grows Study Masters Musician Discovery Originals Finals Destination Catalyst Original Ideas Final Destination

Author:Carl Orr

“The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Eve never were real people the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Eve there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin there is no need of salvation. If there is no need of salvation there is no need of a Savior. And I submit that puts Jesus, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed. I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity.”

“Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.”

Humans Design Understood Discovery Chaos Scripts Technique Application

Author:Phil Hine

“In '7th Heaven,' more than 'Teen Wolf,' was that I got to learn more about my character. In 'Teen Wolf,' I'd always get a new arc for that character every season, which was discovery for me.”

Character Heaven Discovery Seasons Arcs 7th Heaven

Author:Tyler Hoechlin

“There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.”

Different Young Opinion Technology Concepts Discovery Constant Awakening

Author:Elle Fanning

“I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.”

Writing Trying Littles Helping Seems Remember Term Memories Perspective Discovery Let Me Notes Patterns Phones Peaceful Help Me Compassionate Habitual Let Me Down

Author:Richard Brancatisano

“Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, I think people wanted some closure to the story about the fate of the royal couple's only child who survived the gruesome Temple Prison. I know I did.”

People Thinking Knows Heart Children Stories Wanted Interest Fate Couple Discovery Prison Temples Survived Royal Dna Testing Closure Only Child

Author:Susan Nagel

“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.”

Gone Fire College Discovery Invention Ipads

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Long before I realized I was exploring something, that I was looking to develop something in myself, I was just naturally drawn to movies and entertainment and stories that had a core element of spiritual discovery.”

Long Stories Spiritual Elements Discovery Entertainment I Realized Core Exploring

Author:Barnet Bain

“What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.”

Moments Discovery That Moment

Author:Jeff Corwin

“To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week.”

Whole Given Audience Week Share Bears Discovery Scientist Whole Life Alaska Biologist Helicopters

Author:Jeff Corwin

“How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.”

People Ifs Discovery Physics Formulas Disgusting Filthy

Book:Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.”

Two Ideas Industry Discovery Invention Metabolism Articulation

Author:William McDonough

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Stills Book Young Universe Discovery Brilliant New Discoveries

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

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