Discovery Quote by James Whitcomb Riley

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

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

— Blaise Pascal

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

“One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.”

— Sara Levine

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men…

— Charles Darwin

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine,…

— Anonymous

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what…

— Anonymous

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

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

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

— Jonas Salk