Adrian Bejan Quotes, Discovery Quotes, Creative Quotes

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

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Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery

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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

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It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

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Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

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Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

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We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

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There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

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