Discovery Quote by Bruno Rossi

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

— Alan Lightman

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

— Anonymous

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

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel…

— Aaron Klug

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

— Paul Nurse

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that…

— Adam Smith

“To make this journey, we'll need imagination but imagination alone is not enough because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

— Thomas Hobbes

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

— Irving Langmuir

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist…

— Peter Medawar