Discovery Quotes

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

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

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

Behind discovery is delivery.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.