“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758,… — Charles Messier Copy Share Image
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the… — Dick Rutan Copy Share Image
“A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.” — Daniel Andersson Copy Share Image
In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
No matter what you have lost, you will soon discover that you have not truly lost everything if you still have God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image