Discovery Quote by Abraham Pais

“In 1875, when young Max Planck announced his interest in physics, the chairman of his physics department suggested he study something more exciting. Physics,…

— Bruce Rosenblum

“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes. { Advising his student, Max…

— Philipp von Jolly

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the study of…

— J.M.R. Higgs

Science is the never ending search for facts which may never be quite understood and only apprehended by the poetic intuition. Max Planck

— Max Planck Theoretical Physicist

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our…

— Norbert Wiener

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

— William Kingdon Clifford

“scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the…

— John Polkinghorne

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric…

— Thomas A. Edison