Discovery Quote by Alan Lightman

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

— Marcel Proust

We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative…

— Thomas Berry

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

— Chip Heath

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that…

— Bruno Rossi

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at least in…

— Marcel Proust

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life…

— Anonymous

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on…

— Thomas A. Edison

What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.

— Jeff Corwin

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin