Claims Quote by Thales

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

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

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine,…

— Anonymous

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 more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my…

— Thomas A. Edison

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity…

— G. H. Hardy

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I…

— Rene Descartes

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

— Virginia Woolf

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

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's…

— Donald Johanson

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric…

— Thomas A. Edison