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Letter "D" » discovery
«The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.»
«We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.»
«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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«We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.»
«What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous...»
«The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Discovery
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«Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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