Discovery Quotes — Page 43

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who do and you're going to protect the science curriculum in the classroom because you understand the meaning and the value of it. And science discoveries don't scare you. You say, "Give me more science", not less. "Give me more technology", not less.”

Artist Technology Discovery

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.”

Would Be Space Discovery

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.”

Ambition Discovery Television

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known.”

Thinking Mind Discovery

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

“The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.”

America Adventure Discovery

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.”

Fashion Truth Discovery

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.”

Science Levels Discovery

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

“Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.”

Discovery Disease Physicians

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.”

Self Land Discovery

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.”

Adventure Discovery Anecdotes

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young”

School Attitude Discovery

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.”

Soul Discovery Agony

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