Discovery Quotes

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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude… — Hannah Arendt
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link… — David Attenborough
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly… — Douglas Adams
Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. — Bob Beauprez
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look… — Alexander Graham Bell
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. — Paul Berg
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to… — John Berger
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. — Jeff Bezos
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. — Charles Bradlaugh
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. — Sylvia Browne
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be… — Leon Battista Alberti
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources… — Pearl S. Buck
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. — Thomas Carlyle
Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot… — Graydon Carter

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