1,204 Quotes About Discovery

  • Author Dan Forsman
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    And I made a discovery last night. I told my wife I made a discovery, and sure enough today I was making putts.

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  • Author Enrico Fermi
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    Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

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  • Author Elle Fanning
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    There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.

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  • Author Henry Ford
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    I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

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  • Author Janet Frame
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    The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

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  • Author Laura Freid
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    Silk Road embodies the spirit of discovery and exchange. We want to encourage people to look for what unites them instead of what divides them.

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  • Author Lukas Foss
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    It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

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