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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. ↗

— William Gilbert

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And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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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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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. ↗

— A.A. Milne

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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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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

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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

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