The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin; the publication of 'Jane Eyre' - add anything you like.
Ellen Ullman
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There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
David Lee
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In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Charles Lyell
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You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
Alexander Payne
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My guilty pleasure is watching the Investigation Discovery channel.
Whit Stillman
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
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Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.
Paul Davies
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
John Berger
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
Andre Agassi
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Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
George Gaylord Simpson
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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Robert Morgan
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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
Frank Crowninshield
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Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge.
John W. Thompson
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
Adam Shankman
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I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.
Steve Stoute
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Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.
Yves Behar
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Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.
Tom Scholz
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One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I'm sure of that.
Rainer Weiss
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What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.
Rudolf Steiner
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski
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With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.
Louise Leakey
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Sex is a discovery.
Fannie Hurst
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Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery.
Josh Brolin
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