#discovery

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast. ↗

— James D. Watson

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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field. ↗

— Robert Huber

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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love #self-discovery #trust #truth #friendship