Discovery Quotes

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

Charles Bradlaugh

The laws of classical mechanics represent a mathematical idealization and should not be assumed to correspond to the real laws of nature. ... We now have to realize that errors are inevitable (..) a discovery that makes strict determinism impossible.

Lon Nicolas Brillouin

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Gerard Piel

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark van Doren

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

William Ellery Channing

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J Boorstin

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

Martha Graham

Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself.

Hartman Jule

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin
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