“I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.” ResultsProductsTasteAchievementEternalDiscoveryDrivenContemporaryArtisticAppetiteMomentaryInverted Author:Stephen Bayley
“Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .” ReasonLightTruthFatherNaturalMankindEternalDiscoveryEternityCommunicateRevelationsFacultyPortionsFountain Author:John Locke
“Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.” MatterLife IsProcessEternalDiscoveryDiscoveringWhat Matters Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!” PerfectKnowingMaterialsTomorrowEternalDiscoveryPerfectionDebateYesterdayPerfectionistHomageProceeding Author:Oliver $
“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.” ThinkingWorldScienceTalkingDegreesEternalCreatingDiscoverySurrenderNonsenseThinkerDiscoveringMathematicianTimelessParticipatingHardyKeplerThinking GodTalking Nonsense Author:Brand Blanshard