Appearance Quote by Claude Bernard

The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and…

— Oliver Lodge

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and…

— Jacob Bronowski

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

— Phil Crosby

Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist…

— Peter Medawar

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

— Jacob Bronowski

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

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

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

— Isaac Asimov

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

— Edsger Dijkstra