Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old discovery quotes, discovery sayings, and discovery proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.Michael Crichton
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There is no better high than discovery.E. O. Wilson
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.Isaac Newton
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Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.Theobald Smith
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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.Noam Chomsky
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Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities in the clashes of difference.Scott Belsky
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time.William James
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.Arthur Koestler
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.Andre Gide
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Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.Karl Popper
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.Chuck Palahniuk
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.Sunday Adelaja
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Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distantMike Brown
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.A.A. Milne
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.Albert Einstein
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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.Michael Crichton
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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.Frank Tyger
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.Francis Bacon
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Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.Gary Hamel
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.Oprah Winfrey
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andre Gide
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To discover the original plan of God is to manifest the work of creation.Sunday Adelaja
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Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area of calling.Sunday Adelaja
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
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Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.Bryant H. McGill
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The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.Kedar Joshi
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The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.William James
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Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.John Jacob Abel
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A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.Claude Bernard
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.James A. Garfield
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I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.Samuel Johnson
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No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.George Henry Lewes
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Nearly every great discovery in science has come as the result of providing a new question rather than a new answer.Paul A. Meglitsch
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Printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's needle (compass), these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world. Francis Bacon
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Through the unknown, we'll find the new.Charles Baudelaire
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The more original the discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.Arthur Koestler
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There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made the discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.Enrico Fermi
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You must be satisfied with making discoveries. Take care never to offer explanations.Georges Braque
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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.Humphrey Davy
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The word 'discovery' in itself is regrettable. For discovery is equivalent to becoming aware of a thing which is already formed; this links up with proof, which no longer bears the character of 'discovery' but, in the final analysis, of the means that lead to discovery...Discovery is really not a creative act.Einstein
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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.Samuel Smiles
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance— it is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel Boorstin
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are portals of discovery.James Joyce
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.Gail Sheehy
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A new principle in an exhaustible source of new views.Vauvenargues
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.Sir Isaac Newton
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It is a profound mistake to think that everything has been discovered; as well as think the horizon the boundary of the world.Lemierre
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Through every rift of discovery, some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.F.H.Chapin
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It's true that by blundering about, we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.Francis Crick
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Figuring out that new something, / the new direction, or the difference in what / you're doing, can be a brain-wracking experience.Kent Krauss
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There'll always be serendipity involved in the discovery.Jeff Bezos
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If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love, we find out who we want to be; in war, we find out who we are.Kristin Hannah
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Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.Erol Ozan
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Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.Idowu Koyenikan
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What I learned on my own I still remember.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.Wally Lamb
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.Marcel Proust