Voltaire Philosopher, Writer “A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.” Science Should Have Discovery ♥ 3
Thomas A. Edison Inventor “Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.” Men Simple Discovery ♥ 3
Thomas A. Edison Inventor “Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.” Taken Discovery Medicine ♥ 3
SC Scott Cohen Actor “To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.” People Journey Discovery ♥ 3
TL Thomas Leonard Mathematician “The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.” Unique Discovery Generations ♥ 3
Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist “If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.” Thinking Writing Discovery ♥ 3
Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman “Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.” Age Sorry Discovery ♥ 3
Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur “How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.” Two Hero Discovery ♥ 3
Richard P. Feynman Physicist “If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.” Views Discovery Somewhere Else ♥ 3
Richard P. Feynman Physicist “I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.” People Real Discovery ♥ 3
Richard P. Feynman Physicist “Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.” Thinking Law Discovery ♥ 3
