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Discovery Quotes by Albert Einstein
- The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane…
- We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.
- The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery…
- Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to…
- The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.
- Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and…
- Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration…
- I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the…
- The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and…
- The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling…
- It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
- I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
- The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the…
More Discovery Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — 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
- 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
- Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but… — Alexander Graham Bell
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead
- It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new… — Bernadette Roberts
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but… — Isaac Asimov