Application 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.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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 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

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

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

— George Iles

Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as…

— Bertrand Russell

A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Michael Crichton

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