Discovery Quotes — Page 41

Philosopher, Writer

“Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.”

Mind Discovery Accomplishment

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Simone Weil

Philosopher, Activist

“science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.”

Past Science Discovery

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Robert Adams

Photographer

“. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.”

Art Photography Discovery

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Stephen Hawking

Theoretical Physicist

“A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.”

Science Simple Discovery

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Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

“[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.”

Age Space Discovery

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Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.”

Missing Discovery Usual

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Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

“Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.”

Long Discovery Patriotic

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Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.”

Years Animal Discovery

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.”

Discovery Idols Lust

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Sylvester Stallone

Actor, Filmmaker

“I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.”

People Interesting Discovery

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Oliver $

Musician

“Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!”

Knowing Discovery Yesterday

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J. K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter

“This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.”

Law Gay Discovery

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