#discover

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was. ↗

— Michael Pitt

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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ↗

— Plato

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For their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies. ↗

— Rodney Robert Porter

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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

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Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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