Discovery Quotes

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.