#discoveries

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#critic #discoverer #discoveries #let us #therefore

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#being #constantly #discoveries #disorderly #exciting

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#first #hand #nice #these #witness

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

#best #country #discoveries #during #hundred

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ↗

— Carol Shields

#construct #contained #discoveries #feelings #had

But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, “Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board.” It’s as though we’re sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks—masters of the universe—and suddenly say, “Oops, somebody discovered something!” No. We’re always at the drawing board. If you’re not at the drawing board, you’re not making discoveries. You’re not a scientist; you’re something else. The public, on the other hand, seems to demand conclusive explanations as they leap without hesitation from statements of abject ignorance to statements of absolute certainty. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#drawing-conclusions #ignorance #science #scientists #science

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

#conjectures #designed #discoveries #existence #faint

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#detailed #discoveries #fossil #four #had

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#evil #life

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#analysis #discoveries #greatness #intellect #intellectual-thought