Quotes about Discovery

We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world....Love is the only way.

Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. I

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.

We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.

in 1992 came the first confirmed observation of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun.

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed.

It also predicted that the electron should have a partner: an antielectron, or positron. The discovery of the positron in 1932 confirmed Dirac's theory and led to his being awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1933.