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:
“Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your “emancipation.” You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields—discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West—superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)