#discoveries

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#committed #course #discoveries #einstein #enormous

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#alter #before #bet #correct #death

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#because #being #bunch #discoveries #else

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#any #believe #discoveries #even #evidence

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. ↗

— Francis Darwin

#discoveries #exceptions #extreme #go #him

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. ↗

— Janos Bolyai

#hasten #like #man #mathematical #retard

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#art #artist #chain #colors #continuous

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#family

They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#essays-and-introductions #money

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#discoveries #eureka #exciting #funny #hear