Discovery Quotes — Page 44

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”

Facts Discovery Our World

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”

Mean Worry Discovery

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JD

James D. Watson

Molecular Biologist, Geneticist

“The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.”

Discovery Pace

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Do not engage to find things as you think they are.”

Thinking Discovery

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George Will

Political Commentator, Author

“The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.”

President Discovery Profound

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.”

Discovery Cost Equality

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.”

Discovery Modern Life Vastness

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GC

Gordon Campbell

Politician

“Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.”

Years Imagination Discovery

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.”

Discovery Data Deep Understanding

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Leonardo da Vinci

Artist, Scientist, Inventor

“Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.”

Mean Science Discovery

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”

Science Discovery Poetry

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.”

Philosophy Feet Discovery

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