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Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
Herta Muller
Whatever
Skin
Road
Almost
Like
Read
Devoured
Became
Discovery
Literature
Which
I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.
Huston Smith
Truth
Good
Technology
Science
Word
Giving
Science And Technology
Think
Bit
Critical
Introduced
Blank
Simply
True
Check
Am
Caught
Were
Discovery
Reports
Quite
May
Quite A Bit
Which
Modernity
Now
Fountain
I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
Idina Menzel
Life
Work
You
People
Progress
Long
Rich
Guess
OK
Out
Kind
Constantly
Know
Period
Makes
Am
Discovery
Person
Trying
Want
Shortcomings
Figure
Search
Keep
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
Ivan Illich
Health
Care
Fact
Health Care
Were
Discovery
Effective
Currently
Depends
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Ivan Pavlov
Nervous
Other
Lying
Digestive
Immediately
Seek
Similar
Impelled
Glands
Discovery
Canal
Expected
Apparatus
Deeper
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
J. L. Austin
Me
Thought
Made
Long
Philosophy
Say
Pleasures
Reaching
Subject
Discovery
Owe
Afforded
Often
Co-Operation
Barren
Fun
Agreement
Satisfaction
One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
James M. Buchanan
Library
Old
Dissertation
Unknown
Exciting
Most
Discovery
Intellectual
Chicago
Dusty
Buried
Moments
Career
It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
James Taylor
Time
You
Enough
Peek
Musical
Way
Out
Emotional
Emotional Experiences
Songs
Period
Sort
Discovery
Undisturbed
Begin
Quiet
Being
Experiences
Process
Being Quiet
In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.
Janet Echelman
History
White
Changes
Striped
Red
Town
Contemporary
Industrial
She
Trade
Era
Fishing
Discovery
Surrounded
Site
Which
Pattern
Sculpture
Portugal
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
Jay McInerney
Writing
Envy
Those
Find
Outline
Writers
Know
Discovery
Going
Where
Process
Who
Novels
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
Jeff Foxworthy
Morning
Big
Father-In-Law
Channel
Rush
Know
Discovery
Up
Gets
Dad
Why
Watches
Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.
Jen Lancaster
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Channel
Month
Bit
Definitely
Stay
Fresh
Discovery
Forever
December
March
Apples
Here
Last
That is one of the things that has come out of the discovery of pulsars - more knowledge about the space between the stars.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Knowledge
Space
Stars
Out
One Of The Things
About
More
Between
Come
Discovery
Things
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
John Berger
Work
Seen
Finished
Drawing
Record
Construct
Finished Work
Attempt
Remembered
Discovery
Itself
Autobiographical
Either
Event
Imagined
The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.
John Glenn
Time
Man
Our
Machine
Complex
Our Time
Intricate
Most
Built
Testament
Discovery
Ever
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
John Grierson
World
Focus
Three
Think
Universe
Our
Hundred
Hundred Years
Distinguished
Objective
Given
Individual
Had
Him
Doing
Years
Discovery
Did
Middle
Middle Ages
Ages
Exploration
Playground
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
John Money
You
Age
Personality
Live
Think
Way
Exciting
Makes
Discovery
Very
Human
Human Personality
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
John Moody
Construction
Consolidation
Systems
Small
Dates
Days
Particularly
California
However
Lines
Discovery
Gold
Experimental
Large
Railways
Extensive
If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
John Sulston
You
World
Monopoly
Say
Gene
Purpose
Particular
Discovery
Patent
Patents
Human
Just
Just One
Which
Then
Creating
Unique
Even
Function
Actually
The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
John Vane
Today
Knowledge
World
Tomorrow
Will
Made
Research
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Folklore
Arising
New
Around
Scientific
Years
Discoveries
Discovery
Accumulate
Being
Serendipity
Now
Based
Basic
Basic Research
Medicines
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
Challenge
Exploitation
Enormous
Seven
Months
Rate
More
Between
Days
Discovery
Six
Closure
Realm
Now
Right
Four
Need
Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
John Zorn
Time
Great
Eye
All-Time
He
Discovery
My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.
Johnny Flynn
Music
Me
Changes
Way
Some
Only
Write
True
Making
Discovery
Where
Process
Incentive
Moment
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
Jonathan Carroll
Book
Beginning
Out
Find
Put
Sort
Discovery
End
Very
Often
Process
Elimination
'Spring Awakening' was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way - that is probably the thing I miss the most.
Jonathan Groff
Will
Spring
Sense
Way
Miss
Most
Involved
None
Revelation
Discovery
Same
Us
Awakening
Ever
Specific
Thing
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
Jonathan Zittrain
Time
Met
Past
Other
Everything
Possible
Systems
Never
Develop
Instead
Soon
New
Reach
Beyond
Until
Ready
Material
Passed
Been
Conditions
Discovery
New Technologies
Stored
In The Past
Information
Place
Sensitive
Might
Using
Amount
Technologies
Preserve
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