Discovery
The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets.
Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.
That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery.
Exploration; examination.
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Discovery Quotations
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
Ivan Illich
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Discovery Translations
discovery in Afrikaans is ontdekking
discovery in Danish is opdagelse
discovery in Dutch is ontdekking
discovery in German is Entdeckung
discovery in Italian is scoperta
discovery in Norwegian is oppdagelse
discovery in Portuguese is descoberta, descobrimento
discovery in Spanish is descubrimiento
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