“Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!” YearsMadeStillsDreamEnjoyHalfFoodHundredDiscoveryPressureStoresKingdomsPityAtmosphereAbundanceDishesGlobesTravelerLapUnbornMineralsImportation Book:A Handbook of Gastronomy Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy
“I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.” DifferentFormShapesHundredDiscoveryInstanceSpiteDifferent ThingsFarmsVocabularyVineyardsAlways WorkingLabourers Author:Joan Miro
“Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.” WorldYearsTodayFiveAdventureHundredDiscoveryYears AgoExcitingSpeciesErasOur TimeEnterpriseNew WorldLive For TodayGreat Adventure Author:Michael Crichton
“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.” IfsShouldYearsHumansPastThreeSocialSexNaturalAnswersDemocracyVictoryMassHundredDiscoveryDemocratInternationalObviousBackgroundsFascismEconomistIntercourseFascistsSocial LifeCorrespondingPestilence Author:Wilhelm Reich
“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.” Has BeensShowsThreeCausesStuffMillionsStudyTakenDiseaseHundredDiscoveryMedicineUselessSurgeryPreventionNineteenBacteriaNew Discoveries Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.” MenHas BeensAgeEarthLastsUniverseBeliefHeavenMy OwnSpaceClearWiseMonthsThousandHundredDiscoveryBlindFilledDearServantSensationsMarvelousAlasDemonstrationDear FriendSmall Spaces Author:Galileo Galilei
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” ShouldSciencePoliticalUsedStarsNumbersLearningHugeHundredDiscoveryEconomicsBillionsUsed To BeEconomistGalaxyDeficitHuge Numbers Author:Richard P. Feynman
“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.” YearsHas BeensUseChristianReligionCultureNationsBornChurchSinChristianityStepsTakenFiveAtheismHundredDiscoveryInnovationArchitectureAstronomyArtisticGreekCurseSpiteEnlightenedBigotryProgressiveSuperstitionsBiblicalScience And ReligionAvoidedEvery StepChildbirthGeologyScience ReligionChristian AtheistScience Vs ReligionChristian NationAnesthetics Author:Mark Twain
“The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.” PeopleYearsAmericaCulturePovertyCasesFiveDiversityHundredDiscoverySocial JusticePlentySite1960sExoticTerrainDiscovery Of America Book:FEAR OF FALLING Source: FEAR OF FALLING
“Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-made—the panic, the violence that would ensue. That’s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?” Erskine interlocked his fingers. “We come together. We put the pieces back. But a terrorist’s bomb.” He frowned. “A terrorist’s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.” He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. “When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we must destroy him.” PeopleMenWorldFirstsDoeMadeEndsHandsTogetherPiecesImagineViolenceHundredDiscoveryFellowsBlameForgivingFingersSpreadBillionsTerroristDamageBombsPanicFellow ManExplosionsTurmoilEpidemicsTyphoons Author:Hugh Howey