Discovery Quote by George Polya Download Open image “A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.” — George Polya ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Education Grain Great math Knowledge Logic Math Math education Math problems Mathematics Problem Problem solving Research Solve Solved problems
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be… — George Polya Copy Share Image
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it. — David Mermin Copy Share Image
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.... — Mike Brown Copy Share Image
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can… — Bengt I. Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery. — John Jacob Abel Copy Share Image
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole as clearly… — George Polya Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters. — George Polya Copy Share Image
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice. — George Polya Copy Share Image
An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method. — George Polya Copy Share Image
To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it… — George Polya Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image