Brain Quote by George Polya

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we…

— Theobald Smith

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

— Noam Chomsky

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

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And…

— Linus Pauling

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius…

— Bernard Lonergan

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

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

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