Discovering Quotes - Page 18

• What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

  Jean Piaget

  Roots, Different, Next Level

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• Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Philosophy, Ideas, Giving

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.30, Fig

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• Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musical, Technique, Development

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Trying, Body

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• We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power and a vision far beyond any rational thought or cultural creation of which we are capable.

  Thomas Berry

  Creative, Vision, Earth

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

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• I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.

  Rachel Joyce

  Pain, Fall, Differences

  "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - review" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more.

  Yasmin Le Bon

  Mom, Children, Heart

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• I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

  Henri Matisse

  Queens, Black And White, Color

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• If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.

  Elihu Thomson

  Real, Teaching, Knowledge

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• All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

  Adrien-Marie Legendre

  Truth, Mean, Science

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• All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Political, Luck

  "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba". Esquire, December 1934.

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• Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Bored, Progress

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• The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Winning, Long

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.98, Shambhala Publications

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• Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

  Marlo Morgan

  Past, Hands, Discovering Something New

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• For me, the entire journey of Lost has been walking that fine line between discovering Sawyer's humanity and, yet, keeping his edge of anger and destructiveness. He's been through every situation possible, emotionally and physically. Sometimes, it's been scary to get in touch with his growth, especially his relationship with Juliet. I really thought the audience might reject the softer side of Sawyer we saw in that. As for what will happen with him and Kate, all I can say is they have a love that is undeniable, but maybe it must be denied.

  Josh Holloway

  Journey, Scary, Humanity

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• The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Interesting, Crafts

  "Sam Shepard opens up". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

  Spike Jonze

  Curiosity, Documentaries, Following

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• There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Community, Care, Interconnection

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Nature, Science, Discovery

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• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Truth, Discovery

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Goes On, Our Love

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.86, SPCK

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• The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

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• I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Heart, Sleep, Loss

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• To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Brain, History Of Life, Intimate

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