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One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Am Curiosity Discoveries Driven Early Enough Fundamental Life Made Make Me More Motor Myself Pushes Scientific Seize Than Understand Use I Am

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My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Arc Career Could Direction Discipline Discoveries Early Early Years Focus Going Hardly Imagined Important Making Me Met Model Predicted Research Teenager Were Who Years

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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

~Dan Shechtman

Topics: Cases Discoveries Listened Made Most News Really Should Some

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The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: About Answer Anyway Appeared Artistic Creator Culture Daydreaming Discoveries Filled Greatest He Him History How Insight Many Mode Occurred Problem Science Scientific Solved Stories Stroke Suddenly The History Of Thinking While Working

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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

~David Brainerd

Topics: Athens Conjecture Designed Discoveries Existence Faint Few Formed Future Geniuses Had Human Human Soul Man Nature Probable Rome Some Soul Spiritual State

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Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Abundant Comparatively Discoveries Discovery Doubt Duration Effects Gold Limited Mines More New No Doubt Periods Powerful Rare Short Silver Subject Though

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I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: About Age Being Discoveries Eleven Everything Figure Helps Heroes Heroines Life Loved Make Me Most My Own Old Out Own Pitfalls Place Seem Ten Those Twelve Wonderful Write Year Years I Can I Write

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I think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they will never go there in rockets. They will have to make the immense trip by some more powerful means - like the anti-gravitational drive.

~Donald A. Wollheim

Topics: Also Am Astonishing Discoveries Drive First Go Going Immense Land Like Make Means Men More Never Pluto Powerful Rockets Some Sure Think Trip Very Will I Think I Am

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But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

~Donald Johanson

Topics: Ancestors Comparisons Detailed Discoveries Fossil Four Had Human Lab Later Make New Observations Opportunity Other Realized Really She Species Three Until Very Years

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I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

~Donald Johanson

Topics: About Alter Before Bet Correct Death Discoveries Evolution Human Human Evolution Ideas Made Many Me Other Prompt Think Various Will You I Think

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