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Letter "D" » discoveries
«Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| Keywords:
be given, blazed, blazes, cooperation, credit, developments, discoveries, due, due to, improvements, invariably, involve, subsequent, trail, trailing, trails
«Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.»
Author: Frank Tyger
| Keywords:
discoveries, following, instructions, in the main, main, main road, off, road, trying, untried
«Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
affirmations, aspects, discoveries, enduring, expressive, grand, identification, intimate, intimate with, natural world, photograph, revealed, search, spectator, stir, surely, surrounding, The Spectator, vast
«By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made»
Author: Homer
| About:
Confidence,
Discovery,
Trust
| Keywords:
aid, discoveries, mutual, mutual aid
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Admiration,
Discovery
| Keywords:
admiration, decays, discoveries, familiar with, Fed, feed upon, fresh, rising, short-lived, succession
«Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
academies, Academy A, at present, conception, discoveries, Europe, experiment, furnished, hence, instruments, rapid, rapids, sorry, The academy
«FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Finance
| Keywords:
accent, discoveries, finance, finances, Managing, possessions, pronunciation, revenues, syllable, syllables
«If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
demonstrative, discoveries, disputant, disputants, earnestly, hostile, push on, retaining
«Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Physics
| Keywords:
agreed, discoveries, discuss, Erwin Schrodinger, explained, physicist, physicists, physics, report, Schrodinger
«All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you by right. It is time to demand what belongs to you.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
discoveries
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