Chapters Quote by Oliver Lodge

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 think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already…

— Twyla Tharp

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

— Jonas Salk

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius…

— Bernard Lonergan

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and…

— Jacob Bronowski

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

— Isaac Asimov

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

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

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

— Lev Landau

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be…

— George Polya

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

— Kedar Joshi

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari