Discovery Quotes

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.