best quotations about
Discovery |
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Quotations
 | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!”, but “That's funny …” — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 19 likes |
| The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes |
 | The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 9 likes |
 | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 6 likes |
 | Man cannot discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 5 likes |
| We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 5 likes |
 | Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 4 likes |
 | If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. — Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian-American inventor 4 likes |
 | I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 3 likes |
 | In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
 | The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | 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. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 3 likes |
 | We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 3 likes |
 | Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 3 likes |
 | A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
| The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
| The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 3 likes |
 | We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | I do not seek. I just find. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | Find first, seek later. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 2 likes |
 | Our ancestors were wise. They discovered printing, but they didn't publish newspapers. They discovered gunpowder, but they only used it for fireworks. They discovered the compass, but they avoided using it to discover America. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 2 likes |
 | If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | Science is a game whose rule of the game is to find out what the rule of the game is. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 1 likes |
 | One must look for one thing only, to find many. |
 | Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. |
 | Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. |
 | Science finds cures more easily than answers. |
 | He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. |
 | When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else. |
 | The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | I love trying things and discovering how I hate them. |
 | I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. |
| The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. |
| Searching means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. |
 | Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. |
| The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. |
| The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. |
| The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
 | Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. |
 | To be a writer is not to preach a truth, it is to discover a truth. |
 | One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. |
 | We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder. |
 | A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. |
Personal Stories
| I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Eureka! (I found! I found!) Εύρηκα! Εύρηκα! — Archimedes, 287-212 BC, Ancient Greek mathematician & inventor (running naked from his bath after dicovering the 'Archimedes principle') 4 likes |
