Famous quotes containing the word discover:
“Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)
“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)