Quotes with discovery

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  • Will Durant In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Carol P. Christ 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.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Northrop Frye Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Alexander Smith Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Bill Buford Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Patrick Blackett May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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  • James Joyce Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Max Lerner Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • John Ruskin No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ann Druyan People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Will Durant Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Mark Van Doren The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Frank Herbert The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • André Malraux The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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