Accidents Quote by Mark Helprin

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays..

— William Cecil Dampier

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

— Phil Crosby

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

— Pliny the Elder

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

— Ira Erwin

Great discoveries were once great miseries...Don't forsake your destiny too soon.

— Keith Mosaic

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

— Wilhelm Rontgen

There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the…

— Werner Heisenberg

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas…

— John Charles Polanyi

The greatest discoveries in life are what is learned from the mistakes we make

— Lloyd Sarte

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

— Benjamin Disraeli

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the…

— Charles Caleb Colton