195 quotes found
“Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.”
“What is it that causes us to fall in love? We are met with those first, initial glimpses-- a kind of curiosity, a longing for that which is both familiar and unknown in the other. And then comes th...”
“What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential. Ray Mancini”
“We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us.”
“You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.”
“There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.”
“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”
“As falsehood peels like paint, eternal truth is uncovered.”
“According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. When she tried to remove it...”
“My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.”
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived ...”
“Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. ”
“Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't stop asking, and don't let anybody tell you the questions aren't worth it. They are.”
“A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.”
“Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a hi...”
“It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.”
“Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”
“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.”
“I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.”
“And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this ha...”
