Nature Quote by Oswald Spengler

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

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

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

Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an…

— 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

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Discovery is seeing what everyone else saw and thinking what no one thought. —Albert von Szent-Györgyi”

— Philip Tallon

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

— Tom Kelley

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we…

— Theobald Smith

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists…

— Charles Darwin

“I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by…

— Ed Catmull