Aeroplanes Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.

— William Stanley Jevons

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

— Albert Einstein

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new…

— Claude Bernard

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we…

— Theobald Smith

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till…

— George Polya

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