#discovery

But, astonishingly, I'm not broken. I'm not destroyed. Terrified witless, shaking, retching with fear, yes. But no longer insecure. Because during my search for how you died, I somehow found myself to be a different person. ... Living my life. And it wouldn't be my grief for you that toppled the mountain, but love. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#self-discovery #life

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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If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Thomas Reed

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The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

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The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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