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Discovery Quotes

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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
Bruno Rossi

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
Howard Carter

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

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.
Abbe Pierre

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
Bryant H. McGill

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Paul Eldridge

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle

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