Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the...

When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn’t think were interesting and transforms all this...

I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it…but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few...

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.

To find is the thing.

To wander is to be alive.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he...

Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of the matter can only be...

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define ‘serendipity’ as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you...

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

because I have found something not only to live on, but something to die for”!

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the advantage of excluding vague questions and useless calculations; besides it is...

With over half the accounting investigation completed without discovery of material impropriety, much of the risk of an accounting fraud would appear to be greatly diminished,

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do

Reflections…passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for quite a different schooling.” To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed...

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries...

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands...

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Sometimes we go along, thinking”Ah, this is it – this is what true peace feels like…” Then, in a moment of grace, something shifts in our hearts, and in awestruck wonder, we whisper, “oh my,...

But I think I’m broken too. I just don’t know it yet.

It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits from knowing the secrets of Nature, whether it is ready to...

The parent is the child’s guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds...

Good” now is better than “Best” never.

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel’s definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and...

It was youWho opened meLooked into my soulTo study meYou revealed youTo uncover me.

While the HP story has been strengthened with Peregrine’s asset discovery capabilities, the acquisition of most of its relationship discovery partners leaves them vulnerable.

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical...

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

I do not seek. I find.

The word “travel” comes from the Old French word “travail” (or “travailler”), which means “to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience.” (“Travel,” thus, is “a painful and...

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will not necessarily be more damaged than a Survivor who has been...

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

You seem to like helping, taking care of people,” he said. “That is admirable.””You enjoy being nurtured?””Well, that isn’t all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want...

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, ‘I propose to have an...

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.