“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.” MenFoundEnergyCenturyIgnoranceHeroTerribleIntellectualDiscoveryAll ThingsFundamentalsTragicDaringCatastropheFifthFuriousTragic Hero Author:Robert Fagles
“The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.” HumansSpiritualLyingValuesFreedomConditionsDiscoveryFundamentalsProfoundMessHuman ConditionSpiritual ExperienceTrue ValueProfound Spiritual Author:Andrew Cohen
“Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.” DiscoveryFundamentalsDebtCinemaThievesBicycleTriumphantChaplin Author:Satyajit Ray
“I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.” ArtMessagesArt IsDiscoveryFundamentalsSeekingMediumsArtisticImpulse Author:John Paul Caponigro
“It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.” LongTwoTodayCertainImaginationStudyAchievementDiscoveryFundamentalsFruitCarefulWorthyIntellectExperimentsFeaturesMemorableCharacteristicsThinkerMagnificentMotorMagnetGreat AchievementEmbryosDiscsRotating Author:Nikola Tesla
“One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.” Has BeensReasonLawScienceFoundResultsDiscoveryDeserveFundamentalsDetailsCuriousRecognitionLaws Of NatureInertia Author:F. C. S. Schiller
“It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.” FactsLawScienceRolesHard WorkTheoryDiscoveryBasesOriginalsFundamentalsRemarkableQuantumSpontaneousScopeEmissionsQuantum TheoryHistory Of ScienceThermodynamics Author:Ilya Prigogine
“The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.” YearsHas BeensAgeScienceHistoryHeroPeriodsActivityDiscoveryImportanceFundamentalsPhysicsIntenseHeroicPhysical Science Author:Ernest Rutherford
“The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.” MadeImportantScienceNaturalDoubtTheoryDiscoveryBasesFundamentalsStructureDefinitionsCertaintyBiologySignificanceChemicalsGenesTraitsDnaSelectionNatural SelectionIdentificationWatsonHereditaryWhy MeHersheyMendel Author:Jacques Monod
“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.” MenHas BeensHandsScienceUniverseEnergyHistoryKeysDiscoveryFundamentalsEnergy Of The Universe Author:Frederick Soddy
“This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification."” WayMatterBodyLightEyeLawScienceUniverseHistoryTypeDiscoveryFundamentalsBiologyArrangementsInitialsBeacons Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.” WorldTwoMatterWholeScienceHappenedAcceptanceMaterialsTheoryMassDiscoveryNegativeUniversalFundamentalsSeriesEntityMaterial WorldElectronsHistory Of ScienceProton Author:Robert Andrews Millikan
“It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.” UseScienceDiscoveryScientistFundamentalsGuidesOutcomesFollyDespiseSelectionCriteriaUtility Author:John Charles Polanyi
“We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.” StillsAgeAmericaLawScienceNatureLuckyDiscoveryExcitingFundamentalsExcitementDiscoveringMarvelousLaws Of NatureDiscovery Of America Author:Richard P. Feynman
“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.” MenYearsHas BeensStillsProblemPastScienceLyingDifficultGrowthMemoriesAnimalLearningMysteryDevelopmentDiseaseBehaviorDiscoveryRootsBasesFundamentalsAgingComplexesCellsBiologyNervesChemistryChemicalsNeverthelessSpectacularHeredityBreathtakingDifficult ProblemsRecent Past Author:H. Bentley Glass
“In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of his equipment facilities. If greater progress were to be made it would be necessary to construct new and different equipment especially designed to measure the cosmic static.” IfsMadeImportantDifferentWould BeGreaterProgressLimitsDiscoveryFundamentalsObviousAstronomyMade ItCosmicEquipmentConstructsFacilityStaticEstimation Author:Grote Reber
“For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.” PeopleHumansDifferentSelfCharacterHelpingAbleHuman BeingsActingSituationGoes OnPersonalityDiscoveryFundamentalsSelf DiscoveryWho I AmHelp MeDifferent PeoplesVoyages Author:Robert Carlyle
“Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.” MenInspirationalHumansDoeEducationHigherDiscoveryFundamentalsBreadLive ByMarchHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsHigher Education Author:John A. Hannah
“It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.” HonorDiscoveryFundamentalsRemarkablePrizeAdvancementNobelUsefulnessNobel PrizeHomestead Act Author:Peter Agre