Discovery Quotes

"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
-Arthur Koestler

"We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."
-Vauvenargues, Marquis De

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
-Albert Szent Gyorgyi

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
-Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

"America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America"."
-Mike Harding

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
-Isaac Newton

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
-A. A. Milne

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."
-Auguste Rodin

"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."
-Albert Szent Gyorgyi

"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
-Samuel Smiles

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

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-Will Durant

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."
-Anthelme Brillat Savarin

"Discovery is becoming a big leader in the multi-platform world."
-Don Baer

"We will get one new discovery for every $1.8 million of research."
-Jane Muir

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
-James Joyce

"It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially."
-Brett Johnson

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
-Donald Foster

"This was an accidental discovery."
-Craig Sarazin

"We are quite confident that discovery would reveal evidence proving our allegations correct."
-Kevin Bankston

"This discovery sheds new light on the biological causes of the disease."
-Kari Stefansson

"Specialty retail is about discovery and excitement, but I walked into the Gap, and it didn't say anything."
-Stephen Hoch

"There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery."
-Neil Degrasse Tyson

"There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery."
-Roger Von Oech

"This really is a very surprising discovery."
-Hourig Sourouzian

"Learning is the discovery that something is possible."
-Fritz Perls