Great Discoveries Quotes

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look… — Alexander Graham Bell
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. — Ivo Andric
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions,… — Robert Henry Thurston
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys,… — Margaret Mead
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
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… — Albert Einstein
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
... 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
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of… — Benjamin Disraeli
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… — Albert Einstein
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of scienceâ€”information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong… — Archibald MacLeish
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. — Alva Myrdal
The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis. — Robert Jastrow
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek… — Leonard Adleman
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made — Homer
We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority… — Jared Diamond
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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