Discovery Quote by Lynne Rae Perkins

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

— Michael Lewis

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

— David Mermin

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.

— Jeff Corwin

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

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

— Alan Kay

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

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science,…

— Lisa Randall

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished…

— Michael Crichton

“To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over…

— Trey Ratcliff