Discoveries

Discoveries may refer to:

  • Discoveries, a work by William Butler Yeats, written in 1907
  • Discoveries (film), a 1939 British film
  • Discoveries (Robertson Davies), a book by Robertson Davies, published in 2002
  • Discoveries (album) a 1955 album by Cannonball Adderley
  • Discoveries (TV series), a Canadian youth science television series which aired on CBC Television in 1957
  • Portuguese discoveries, Intensive maritime exploration by the Portuguese during the 15th and 16th centuries

Famous quotes containing the word discoveries:

    One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces—in the beginning, there was spice.
    Stefan Zweig (18811942)