I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew. - W H Auden As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. - Judy Biggert There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person. - Bill Bryson The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. - Albert Einstein We must not forget that when radium was discovered no...

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies - Stephen Colbert What are you still doing up?" I twisted around, spotting Hayden in the doorway. "Watching the... uh," I turned back, frowning at the screen, "the... way tigers mate." I sighed. Damn you, Discovery Channel. He chuckled deep in his throat. "Didn't know that kind of thing interested you." "Oh. Yeah, always wanted to know how they picked their boyfriends. - Jennifer L Armentrout My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this. - Jeff Foxworthy Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery...