Discovery Quote by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's…

— Donald Johanson

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it…

— Thales

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

— David Mermin

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge…

— Antony Hewish

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

— Henry Taube

Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an…

— Nikola Tesla

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I…

— Rene Descartes

The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.

— Fernando Pessoa