Accidents Quote by William Cecil Dampier

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

— Wilhelm Rontgen

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

X-rays will prove to be a hoax.

— Anonymous

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

— Keith Mosaic

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

— Pliny the Elder

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid…

— Joseph Rotblat

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to…

— Walead Beshty

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

— Ira Erwin

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

— Phil Crosby

“Self-discovery is among the greatest of discoveries, like atoms, electrons and neutrons, which cannot be seen but whose impact can either destroy billions of…

— Raj Suthar

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge