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

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought

Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don’t eat it.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose...

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

The real scientist . . . is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

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