discovery quotes
Perdre Mais perdre vraiment Pour laisser place a' la trouvaille Perdre La vie pour trouver laVictoire. To lose But really to lose And make room for discovery To lose Life so as to discover Victory.
Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.
Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale.
Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas, the discoveryof some occult relation between imagesin appearance remote from each other.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
She had reached an age where she thought she could not stand to knowany moreshe pushed any discovery aside with embarassment.
Countless works in the social sciences reveal the inability of their authors to bear in mind the crucial difference between what may properly be called the logic of discovery and the logic of demonstration. The second isproperlysubjectto rules and prescriptions; the first isn't.
Scientific discoveryand scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
In order that a new theory should constitute a discovery or step forward it should conflict with its predecessor it should contradict its predecessor; it should overthrow it. In this sense, progress in scienceor at least striking progressis always revolutionary.
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 797
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow's discovery they would make it.
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