"Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning."
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"Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about."
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"Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus."
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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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"We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines ."
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"I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory."
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"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
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"There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live."
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"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
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"How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations."
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"One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old."
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"We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go."
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"For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am."
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"We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted."
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"The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous."
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"But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work."
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"Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces"
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"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
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"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
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"Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries."
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