Accidentally Quote by Wilhelm Rontgen

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

Great discoveries were once great miseries...Don't forsake your destiny too soon.

— Keith Mosaic

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

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

— Phil Crosby

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

— Ira Erwin

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

— Pliny the Elder

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

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

[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

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

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz

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