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Letter "D" » Discovery
«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
«Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different»
Author: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(Biochemist)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
everyone else, looking at, Something Different
«All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Discovery,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
the point, truths
«If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
discoveries, due, patient
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Compassion,
Conscience,
Creativity,
Discovery,
Evolution,
Existence,
Experience,
Exploration,
Goodness,
Gratitude,
Happiness,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
Mankind,
Meditation,
Mortality,
Nature,
Opportunity,
Perception,
Perspective,
Philosophy,
Responsibility,
Truth,
Wisdom
«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
«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
«I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent»
«From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.»
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