Discovery Quotes — Page 34

Chemist

“In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.”

Science Discovery Twenties

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?”

Men Reality Discovery

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Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher, Media Theorist

“We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.”

Water Discovery

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Pliny the Elder

Naturalist, Author

“The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.”

Discovery Found

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D. H. Lawrence

Novelist, Poet

“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery”

Self Discovery Penetrate

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Plutarch

Philosopher, Historian

“The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.”

Men Discovery Vices

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Abraham Lincoln

Political Leader

“All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.”

Men Destiny Discovery

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Political Activist, Diplomat

“After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.”

World Love Discovery

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Elie Wiesel

Writer, Holocaust Survivor

“Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .”

Cities Discovery Paris

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Eliot Engel

Politician

“I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet.... It's a long time ago, we want to move on, but eleven years after the discovery of their bodies no one has been held accountable for their killing and the chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.”

Moving Brother Discovery

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Elizabeth Charles

Author

“great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.”

Discovery Everyday Innovation

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Edith Wharton

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace”

Moving Discovery Pace

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