Charles Dickens Quotes, Character Quotes, Discovery Quotes

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

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I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

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I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

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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.

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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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Self Quotes

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Years Quotes , Discovery Quotes

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

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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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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Discovery Quotes

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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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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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.

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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Science Quotes , Discovery Quotes

Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.

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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?

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