Discovery Quote by Rene Descartes

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

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

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new…

— Margaret Bourke-White

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

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

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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

— Paul Berg

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our…

— Norbert Wiener

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

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

— Anonymous

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

Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when…

— Myron Allen