Adapting Quote by David Hume

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation…

— William Robertson Smith

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

— Henri Poincare

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

— George Bernard Shaw

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something…

— Elif Batuman

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.…

— Jonathan Schooler

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

— Henri Poincare

“Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.”

— Chandrakanth Natekar

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Isaac Newton

“Every time we proceed to explain some conjectural law or theory by a new conjectural theory of a higher degree of universality, we are…

— Karl Popper

It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means…

— Claude Bernard