Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

Time discovers truth.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Facts are stubborn things.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

There are no facts, only interpretations.