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Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

— George Iles

“Greatest discoveries start with one small step”

— Mayur Ramgir

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

— Kedar Joshi

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.

— William Stanley Jevons

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost…

— Henry David Thoreau

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

— Lev Landau

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

— Louis Pasteur

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till…

— George Polya

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer