I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was in for trouble at the last part of my speech dealing with the age of the earth, where my views conflicted with his. To my relief, Kelvin fell fast asleep, but as I came to the important point, I saw the old bird sit up, open an eye and cock a baleful glance at me! Then a sudden inspiration came, and I said Lord Kelvin had limited the age of the earth, provided no new source (of energy) was discovered. That prophetic utterance refers to what we are now considering tonight, radium! Behold! the old boy beamed upon me.
Ernest RutherfordTag: humor science energy speech funny dating discovery views prophecy creationism nobel-laureate lord-kelvin age-of-earth age-of-the-earth new-source-of-energy radioactive-decay radiometric-dating radium
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
Jules VerneTag: error discovery errors voyage discoveries jack-goldenberg
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
Edward M. PurcellTag: science rich beauty world delight wonder universe strange earth discovery snow awe senses nobel-laureate reward magnetic-field experiments protons
A Prayer for Daily Insight
Open my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don't have to journey far to discover something new, for miracles surround me, blessings and holiness abound. And You are near.
Amen.
Tag: blessings prayer insight discovery daily daily-practice
When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris)
Andrea BouchaudTag: adventure home college travel discovery coming-of-age airports departure on-my-own study-abroad book-quote-of-oneself
Come and discover a love you don't have to work for.
E'yen A. GardnerTag: grace discovery rest love-of-god
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?
E.A. BucchianeriTag: wisdom writing family inspiration food creativity ideas discovery conversation thoughts arts-and-humanities dinner inspirations creative-people discussions family-dinner sources-of-inspiration meals-mealtimes sharing-ideas
We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.
Ivan MichurinTag: science optimism nature discovery task favour
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
Antoine LavoisierTag: science french theory discovery invention chemistry posterity scientist scientific-theory oxygen-theory
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}
Tag: humor science talent funny discovery famous chemistry nobel-laureate scientist indigo buchner cell-free-yeast-extract eduard-buchner synthesized-indigo
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