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  • In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Europe And America Quotes , Discovery Quotes
  • I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Science Quotes , Discovery Quotes
  • FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Art Quotes , Discovery Quotes
  • The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Discovery Quotes
  • When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Journey Quotes , Discovery Quotes
  • Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Men Quotes , Discovery Quotes