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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

~Charles Bradlaugh

Topics: Discovery Free Free Speech Possible Search Speech Truth Truth Is Useful Without

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The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Basic Because Brain Decision Decision Making Discovery Emerges Focus Fully Habit Hard Important Loop Making Other Participating Reveals Stops Tasks Truth Working

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The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.

~Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Topics: Also Animal Discovery Guinea Guinea Pig Infection Made Me Pig Possible Preserve Soon Susceptible Third Virus Year

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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

Topics: Contradict Discovery General Hesitation Investigations Much Naturally Only Plead Previous Received Reply Seems Tenor Which I Can

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Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: Been Discovery Drawer Everyone Impressed Like Mobile Now Old Opened Pantomime Phone Prop Resembles Think Unexpected Used Were You

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Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.

~Chris Cornell

Topics: Being Discovery Factor Geography Had Heard Much Music Music Scene New Nobody Really Scene Seattle Terms Town Very Where

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The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: Actual Attempts Bed Better Better Understanding Care Current Discovery Earth Gazing How Humanity International Invention Laboratory Legacy New Often Our Out Phenomenal Planet Space Space Station Station Step Take Take Care Test Thought Understanding Unparalleled While Will Window

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Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

~Chris Hayes

Topics: Anger Any Being Different Discovery Emotion Emotional Emotions Feeling Feelings Genre Kind Lot Moved Pathos Produces Reaction Reward Righteous Sadness Sentimentality Some Something Successful Tap Television Viewers

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If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

~Chris Meledandri

Topics: Breaking Cinema Discovery End Going Magic Me Movies Risks Rules Taking Taking Risks Up Where You

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Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.

~Christian De Duve

Topics: Another Cell Discovery Fruitful Investigations Later Led Name New Our Part Received Very Were Which

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