Creative Quote by Karl Popper

“There is no such thing as a logical method of having new ideas. Discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition. Karl Popper1”

— Frans P.B. Osinga

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

— Henri Poincare

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

— Noam Chomsky

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

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

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

— Thomas S. Kuhn

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

— Abraham Pais

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

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Real discoveries come from chaos.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

— Dan Ariely