#discovery

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#discovery #meeting #mind #prepared #prepared mind

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery. ↗

— Howard Carter

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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#ancient #arts #crete #discovery #europe

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#discovery #explained #hope #i #i hope that

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past. ↗

— Ruth J. Simmons

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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. ↗

— Ann Druyan

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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ↗

— Aristotle

#self-discovery #wisdom #wisdom