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Quotations by Subject: Discovery (17 quotes)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.: Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.: Sir Hugh Walpole
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 on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.: William James (1842 - 1910)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

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)
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Come quickly, I am tasting stars!: Dom Perignon, at the moment of his discovery of champagne

Results from Poor Man's College:

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs.: Saturday Review
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.: Lawrence J. Peters
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.: C. C. Colton

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