#discovery

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

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Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically all over. The scrutiny seemed to satisfy him, as well as it might. I, whose only acquaintance was with bodies and minds developing, was suddenly confronted by maturity in its most undeniable form; and I wondered, what must it feel like to be him, master of those limbs which have passed beyond the need of gym and playing field, and exist for their own beauty and strength? What can they do, I thought, to be conscious of themselves? ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#discovery #beauty

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

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Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. ↗

— Robert Redford

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

— Albert Einstein

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In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#deliver #delivery #direct #discovery #find