The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.
THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. 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.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.
I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.
I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.
Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half. ' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.
