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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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I didn't make these discoveries... God has only worked through me to reveal to His children some of His wonderful providence.
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179 -
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
The World of Mathematics (1956) -
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
Individual Liberty -
The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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