Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the ...
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.
The term ‘fell in love’ is apt, because it implies there is pain in the discovery. I didn’t ‘land softly in love’.
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
