Discovery Quotes

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

All my life I have felt as if I have been exploring a shore and looking at a few pretty shells here and there, while the whole ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

Half of all scientific discoveries ever made were made in the 20th century. Creation is accelerating, and even the acceleration appears to be accelerating.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Be an explorer – read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play – do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t.

Some discoveries provide answers to questions. Other discoveries are so deep that they cast questions in a whole new light, showing that previous mysteries were misperceived through lack of knowledge.