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 DISCOVERY . . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ADVENTURE CREATIVITY CURIOSITY EXPERIMENT, EXPLORATION GENETIC ENGINEERING IMAGINATION INNOVATION INQUISITIVENESS INVENTION OBSERVATION ORIGINALITY QUESTIONS RESEARCH ROBOTS SCIENCE SOUTH POLE STEM CELL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY, TELEPHONE VISION WONDER --- Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. It will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about. --Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Scottish-born American audiologist best known as the inventor of the telephone [1876] The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. --Daniel J. Boorstin (1914- ) American historian, in Carol Krucoff, "The 6 O'Clock Scholar" _Wahington Post_ [29 January 1984] The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called 'Keep to-morrow dark,' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) 'Cheat the Prophet.' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874-1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet, _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ [1904], ch. 1 "Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy" It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance, rather than of contemplation, and of accident, rather than of design. --C.C. Colton (1780-1832) English clergyman and writer. None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible. --Henry Ford (1863-1947) American car manufacturer, _My Life and Work_ [1922] One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. --Andre Gide (1869-1951) French novelist and critic, _The Counterfeiters_ [1925] Who never walks, save where he sees men's tracks, makes no discoveries. --Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribner’s Magazine" - It is certain, says [Columbus], that this is the mainland, and that I am off Zayton and Quinsay [Shanghai and Hangchow, both Chinese ports] 100 leagues [about 300 miles] distant more or less from the one and the other, and this is shown by the sea, which looks different from what it has been until now. --Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474-1566) Spanish priest and historian, _Diary_ [1530s], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 324 Cohan & Major explain: Thus on 1 Nov. 1492, coasting Cuba, [Columbus] decided he was off the Chinese mainland. A biography of Las Casas: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/las_casas.html - An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. --Max Plank [Karl Ernst Ludwig] (1858-1947) German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory; winner of the Nobel Prize, for Physics in 1918 _The Philosophy of Physics_ [1936] The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French novelist What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. --Albert von Szent-Györgyi (1893-1992) Hungarian-born biochemist, winner of the 1937 Nobel prize for Medicine, _The Scientist Speculates_ [1962] ----- descry (transitive verb) 1. To see or make out, esp., something obscured or at a distance. Example: He descried the house through the thick vegetation. Syn.: discern, distinguish, sight 2: To find or detect by means of close study or observation. Example: She descried several errors in the manuscript. Syn.: detect, discover Related: find, notice, catch, see, observe Derived: descrier, n. serendipity (noun) 1. The accidental discovery of something pleasant, valuable, or useful 2. A natural gift for making pleasant, valuable, or useful discoveries by accident | DANCING - DAY | DEATH [PAGE 1 A-G] | DEATH [PAGE 2 H-Z] | DEBATE - DEEDS | DECEPTION | DEFEAT - DELAY | DEMOCRACY - DESIRE | DESPAIR - DICKENS (CHARLES) | DICTIONARY - DILIGENCE | DINNER - DISABILITY | DISAGREEMENT - DISGUISE | DISCOVERY | DISHONESTY - DOCTORS | DOGS | (ON) DOING GOOD - DREAMS | DRESS - DRUNKENNESS | DUELS - DUTY | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | |
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