Quotes of: Discoverer Keyword

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

John Sladek

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

Eli Broad

ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam From Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.

Martin Waldseemüller

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The Advancement Of Learning

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

David Seabury

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

Paul Allen

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Milan Kundera

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Flannery O'Connor

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our la...

Jonathan Zittrain

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Edward Tufte

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

Andy Cohen

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

Faraday as a Discoverer

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

Faraday as a Discoverer

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

Simon Bolivar

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Edward Klein

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without calumny; happiness without anxiety.

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