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• The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery, Facts
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  Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

  Tom Krause

  Topics in Inspirational, Success

  Tags in Courage, Discovery, Trying

• It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

  Frederick Sanger

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Adventure, Discovery

• There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

  Paul Eldridge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery

• This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery, Solutions

• With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

  Paul Berg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King’s, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  Patrick White

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Discovery

• S*x is a discovery.

  Fannie Hurst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery

• Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

  George G. Simpson

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  Tags in Paleontologists, Discovery

• The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Explorer, Discovery

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  Garrett Hardin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agriculture, Discovery

• The delights of self-discovery are always available.

  Gail Sheehy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Discovery

• This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

  Saul Perlmutter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery

• I’m quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia – which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn’t have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

   

  Eddie Izzard

  Topics in History

  Tags in Discovery, Information

• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

  Edgar Quinet

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Discovery

• To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reward, Discovery

• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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  Tags in Discovery

• What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire – the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Astronaut, Voyage, Discovery, Corps

• Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Discovery

• There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Measurement, Discovery