Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities.… — Justin Winsor
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement… — Joseph Rotblat
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes… — Bruno Rossi
Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time. — John Zorn
An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery. — Enrico Fermi
Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who… — John Charles Polanyi
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of… — Justus von Liebig
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet… — Claude Bernard
So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn… — Mike Mason
I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use… — Richard P. Feynman
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and… — Richard P. Feynman
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It… — Peter Medawar
There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say so-the discovery of… — Pope Francis
I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory. — Claude Bernard
I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution… — Stephanie Kwolek
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in… — John N. Bahcall
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of… — Claude Bernard
Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made. — Claude Bernard
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration… — Albert Einstein
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil… — Henry Thomas Buckle
The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful… — Claude Bernard
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an… — Leon M. Lederman
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more… — Robert Watson-Watt

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