Bases Quote by Bengt I. Samuelsson

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

— William Stanley Jevons

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

— Kedar Joshi

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 truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity…

— William Stanley Jevons

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

— Michael Polanyi

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

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance,…

— Benjamin Thompson

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

— Louis Pasteur