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Discovery

«Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.»
«Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different»
«All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.»
«If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent»
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
«After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.»
«By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made»
Author: Homer | About: Confidence, Discovery, Trust | Keywords: aid, discoveries, mutual, mutual aid
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
«I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent»
Author: Paul Simon (Singer, Song Writer) | About: Discovery, Inventions | Keywords: invent
«From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Discovery, Errors, Mistakes | Keywords: discovers

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