Discovery Quote by 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

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

“Finding WHY is a process of discovery, not invention.”

— Simon Sinek

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be…

— George Polya

I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

— Nicole Kidman

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

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

— Isaac Asimov

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

— Henry Ford

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

— Paul Berg

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

— George Henry Lewes

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

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