"The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things"
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"I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control."
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"All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet."
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"I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work"
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"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
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"The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening."
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"It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover."
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"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."
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"The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble."
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"THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious."
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"I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery."
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"Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have."
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"I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation."
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"Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one."
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"The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries."
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"[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations."
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"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others."
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"The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty."
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"The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation."
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"Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him."
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