Nature Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd…

— Arthur David Ritchie

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

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

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our…

— Norbert Wiener

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

— Noam Chomsky

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

— Michael Crichton

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

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

— Abraham Pais

When we feel like we discover something, we are usually uncovering or realizing what has always been there. The laws of nature are always…

— Tara Stiles

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists…

— Charles Darwin