One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist
Speculates (1962)
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of
the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the
illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point
is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an
uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to
have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself
in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before
me.
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more
to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these
that new discoveries are made.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December
11, 1985
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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