Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human… — Ambrose Bierce
When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something… — Francis Crick
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same… — Francis Bacon
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made? — Henri Poincare
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced… — Max Perutz
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,… — George Polya
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created… — Bertrand Russell
At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none. — Francis Bacon
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for… — Seneca the Younger
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two… — Gertrude B. Elion
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and… — Michael Faraday
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who… — Charles Darwin
I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer. — Wolfgang Ostwald
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature… — Francis Bacon
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its… — Francis Crick
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the… — Arthur C. Clarke
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… — Louis Pasteur

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