Adrian Bejan Quotes, Discovery Quotes, Creative Quotes

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

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One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

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Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous.

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The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

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We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

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This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

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I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

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You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

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