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Letter "D" » discovery
«Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought»
«Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.»
Author: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(Biochemist)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
discovery, everyone else, seeing
«A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.»
Author: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(Biochemist)
| Keywords:
accident, discovery, meeting, meeting of minds, prepared
«I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know»
Author: Joanna Field
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
began, discovery, fit, gradual, preconceived, purposes, shaping, slow
«It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm»
Author: Mary Henle
| Keywords:
discovery, lukewarm, occur, regard, regard to, significant, The Thinker, thinker, with regard to
«After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Discovery,
Life
| Keywords:
after all, be due, discovery, dues, due process, explore, explored, explores, involved, pays, safe, self-discovery, The Process
«Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Education,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
discovery, Discovery of, of our own, progressive, Progressives, The Progressive
«Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Experience,
Failure
| Keywords:
discouraged, discourages, discouraging, discovery, Discovery of, earnestly, false, fresh, fresher, freshest, highway, in a sense, leads, points, positive, sense experience, the highway
«He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| Keywords:
discovery
«Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
attitudes, critical, Critical thinking, discovery, intellectual, social, stimulating
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