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Quotations by Subject: Discovery (17 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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Results from Classic Quotes:

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921
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He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.: Samuel Smiles
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Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.: Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in "The Power of Coincidence," Psychology Today, July 2004
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.: Joseph Priestley
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.: "Why" on Quartz
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.: James Joyce (1882 - 1941)

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