I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more ….
The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process..
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's….
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering..
Do not engage to find things as you think they are..
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery..
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begott….
The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologi….
I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of b….
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human..
By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and th….
It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound..
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky.
It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The….
Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the sh….
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hard….
I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of ….
You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing that he had copied ….
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have thi….
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods ….
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most s….