Discovery Quotes

"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."

Henri Poincaré

"One sometimes finds what one is not looking for."

Alexander Fleming

"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

Enrico Fermi

"Eureka! (I have found it!)"

Archimedes

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

William Lawrence Bragg

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons."

Edwin Hubble

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

"I write to discover what I know."

Flannery O'Connor

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

Isaac Newton

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it."

Charles F. Kettering

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

“Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics.”

"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual."

Alexander Fleming

"The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey."

Wendell Berry

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

George A. Moore

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

Will Durant

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

James Joyce

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

Marcel Proust

“Eureka!”

Archimedes