Commonplace Quote by Peter Medawar

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

— Charles Edison

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

A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.

— Alar Toomre

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

— Fritz Leiber

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

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year,…

— Richard Leakey

Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel…

— William Stanley Jevons

“This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that it has…

— Christa Faust

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

— Brian Cox

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