Discovery Quotes

The free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritualpower is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.