Discovery Quote by Wilhelm Rontgen Download Open image “Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.” — Wilhelm Rontgen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Likes Made Thinking
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.. — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
Great discoveries were once great miseries...Don't forsake your destiny too soon. — Keith Mosaic Copy Share Image
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently. — Ira Erwin Copy Share Image
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.) — Wilhelm Rontgen Copy Share Image
Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted,… — Wilhelm Rontgen Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
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