Discovery Quotes - Page 4

Eureka! (I have found it!).

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of 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.

Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

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.

Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth