Discovery Quotes

• Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?

  

  William Lipscomb
  • Want
  • Discovery
  • Credit

• A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Discovery
  • Prepared
  • Accidents

• It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.

  

  William Wickenden
  • Waiting
  • Progress
  • Philosophy

• I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.

  

  Wolfgang Ostwald
  • Important
  • Discovery
  • Organizer

• Again and again, the key to a great discovery has been an unexpected observation.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Key
  • Observation
  • Unexpected

• I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

  

  Eliot Wigginton
  • Children
  • Accomplishment
  • Adults

• It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Problem
  • Humans
  • Regret

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Genius

• Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.

  

  Bengt I. Samuelsson
  • Finding
  • Attracting
  • Laboratories

• The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.

  

  Georg Buhler
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Attention

• We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Lucky
  • Stills
  • Discovery

• If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Feels

• The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

  

  Alice Hegan Rice
  • Thoughts
  • Discovery
  • Mastery

• Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • Discovery
  • Corners
  • Copper

• Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Changed
  • Fields
  • Intense

• And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • America
  • Discovery
  • Financiers

• When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Quiet

• Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Water
  • Discovery
  • Sunscreen

• The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

  

  Myles Munroe
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Finding

• What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Loved
  • Afraid
  • Discovery

• Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Road
  • Ignore
  • Result

• The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Problem
  • Design
  • Achieve

• We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heaven
  • Mystery
  • Discovery

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

  

  William Targ
  • Reason
  • Pleasure
  • Obvious

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