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Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time. -- John Zorn
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. -- Thomas Carlyle
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. -- Arthur H
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. -- Will Durant
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. -- Isaac Newton
The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking. -- Richard Tarnas
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. -- Georges Braque
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. -- George Henry Lewes
Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found. -- Max Wertheimer
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. -- George Polya
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. -- H. L. Mencken
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. -- Benjamin Disraeli
For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great. -- Abe Fortas
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation. -- Christopher Hitchens
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.. -- William Cecil Dampier
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths. -- Claude Bernard
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. -- Arthur H
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species. -- Edward Gibbon
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there. -- H. Richard Niebuhr
Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends. -- Malcolm Morley
I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery. -- Jamaica Kincaid
If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery. -- Richard P. Feynman
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds. -- Stephen Jay Gould

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