Completing Quote by Joseph Priestley

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

— Joseph Priestley

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

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity…

— William Stanley Jevons

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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 greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

— John Donne

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

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my…

— Thomas A. Edison

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

— Archimedes