I teach 18- to 21-year-olds – the ‘Harry Potter’ generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope ‘A Discovery of Witches’ will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government’s attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It’s so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.
Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.
Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge.
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
I’m constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it’s ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it’s what makes life rich… period.
In animation, there’s this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT’S what I was doing.
We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle’s properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.
Reality TV is here, it’s been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It’s never changed. It just looks a bit different.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery – the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work.
The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can’t just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.
No doubt, clinical practice in alleviating malaria symptoms utilizing Qinghao – inherited from traditional Chinese medical literature – provided some useful information leading to the discovery of artemisinin.
To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.
I like the ‘Science Channel,’ the ‘Discovery Channel,’ I like ‘Discovery Times,’ which is a fabulous hybrid of the ‘New York Times’ and ‘Discovery Channel.’ Maybe I’m just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
I think there’s an aspect of my soul, of my personality, that’s very suited to directing. I like being in the room with actors; I love creating a safe space and a chaotic space for the discovery to take place. I love creating a sense of community.
I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.
It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else’s skin, and know it’s not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it’s provided me with a lot of confusion. It’s also provided me with a lot of discovery.
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
The way the Facebook network is set up, it’s not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don’t necessarily know but share your interests.
Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative work cannot be capitalised on.
Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character and trying to think through them without the limitations of the script.
I’m a walking advertisement for PBS and for the Discovery Channel. All of my DVR settings are pretty much set to record anything that’s on the Discovery Channel. I’m a big fan of ‘MythBusters’ and ‘Deadliest Catch,’ and I’m constantly watching ‘Moyers & Company’ and the ‘NewsHour’ and ‘Antiques Roadshow.’
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
Our vision for Pinterest is to be a discovery engine for people to see the possibilities for their life, to make their life more meaningfully lived.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
The committee’s work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
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.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.
Anything that’s on Discovery or Nat Geo, I’m pretty much watching it.
Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature.
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
During Women’s History Month, we celebrate milestones in gender equality, and we uplift the stories of women who have impacted our world with their creativity, advocacy, service, invention, and discovery.
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Sex is a discovery.
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn’t realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
