Discovery Quote by Abe Ajay

I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong…

— Seymour Chwast

[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Research...........is searching something that, has been searched earlier....

— Santanu Mishra

I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would…

— George Saunders

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped…

— Seth Shostak

The search is in the doing.

— Joan Baez

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

— Antonin Scalia

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along…

— Abe Ajay

You dig in and you find something.

— Georg Baselitz

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge…

— Sara Bonnett Stein