"To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery."
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"Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again."
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"America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy."
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"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."
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"The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium."
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"The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed."
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"Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences."
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"The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say."
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"It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
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"Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery."
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"There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed."
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"Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it."
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"The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes."
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"Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie."
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"By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made"
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"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
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"The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure."
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"The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future."
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"Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer."
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"Find joy and peace in this very moment."
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