Discovery Quotes
1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life…
— Eduard Suess
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But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and…
— Unknown Author
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In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of…
— Jean-Baptiste Dumas
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In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound…
— Thomas George Bonney
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish…
— A.J. Ayer
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing…
— Edward Mills Purcell
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To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that…
— Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another…
— Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your…
— Samuel Warren Carey
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I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it…
— Brand Blanshard
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I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic…
— Harold Urey
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not…
— Ada Lovelace
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In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and…
— Alexander Fleming
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It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime…
— Alexander Fleming
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It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.
— Charles Hard Townes
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Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
— Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
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Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They…
— James Black
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The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things…
— Unknown Author
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
— Norwood Russell Hanson
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This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides…
— Friedrich Wohler
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This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its…
— Unknown Author
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
— Abraham Pais
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