Contradict Quote by Charles Lyell

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric…

— Thomas A. Edison

“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong…

— Alexander Von Humboldt

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit…

— Bill Bryson

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity…

— Charles Lyell

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

— Jonas Salk

“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.”

— John Reader

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

— Henri Poincare

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

— Ira Erwin