Cases Quote by Thomas A. Edison

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Isaac Asimov

“All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire…

— Isaac Asimov

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much…

— Charles Lyell

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

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

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few…

— Francis Galton

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy…

— Frederick Soddy

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi