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Quotations by Subject: Discovery (17 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.: Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.: Donald Foster
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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