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Discovery Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power…
- The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror…
- We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the…
- Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work…
- A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison…
- I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light…
- During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were…
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
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — John Berger