Convenience Quote by Norbert Wiener

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

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

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with…

— Talcott Parsons

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in…

— Max Planck

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

— Anonymous

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

— Albert Einstein

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the…

— John Polkinghorne

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their…

— John Charles Polanyi

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

— Abraham Pais