Discovery Quotes - Page 4

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.

We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.

Scientists are human - they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Much is yet to be discovered and invented, so dig ideas with uniqueness

I don't like museums, I like labs.

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. In short, we have learned primarily by tinkering.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Sometimes we go along, thinking
"Ah, this is it - this is what true peace feels like…"
Then, in a moment of grace, something shifts in our hearts,
and in awestruck wonder, we whisper,
"oh my, I just didn't know there could more...

Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.