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Discovery Quotes
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
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"There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."
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"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
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"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things."
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"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."
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"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
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"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."
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"Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it."
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"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
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"Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different."
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"There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene."
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"Dive deep and make your discovery."
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"Life is an experimental field."
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"I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts."
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"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."
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"It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery."
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"You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself."
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"The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts."
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"When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance."
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"Discover your gift and talent, then start a process of production with it if you desire to be prosperous."
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"When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside."
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"All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment."
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"Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission."
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"It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow."
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"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
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"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."
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"Discovering yourself is the major key to being successful."
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"If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments."
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"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."
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"Open your eyes to new opportunities."
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"Your bread may be small but with God's blessing it will increase."
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"This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions."
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