Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested…

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

— Charles Babbage

“The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities.…

— John Henry Newman

“In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of…

— Eraldo Banovac

“There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Magic,” Core responded, “is anything observable and perhaps repeatable that cannot be explained in terms of any existing knowledge on the part of the…

— Jack L. Chalker

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active,…

— K. Patricia Cross

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

— Aristotle

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of…

— Arthur Koestler

The wonderment of humanity leads to its greatest discoveries.

— Charles Thomas Newton

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with…

— George Ellery Hale

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It…

— Francis Darwin

“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about…

— David Attenborough

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time.…

— Michael Crichton

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

— Ellen Langer