Big idea Quote by Nikola Tesla

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

— Heidi Julavits

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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

I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

— Nicole Kidman

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

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

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's…

— Donald Johanson

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

— Paul Berg

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

— Claude Bernard

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant....

— Mike Brown

Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist…

— Peter Medawar