Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have...

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science… When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Do not ignore inspiration, it is your guide to self discovery.

… the irregularities of the motion of Uranus…in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]

His [Faraday’s] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.

Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of an elastic string]; that it was always pulled in the direction of the sun,...

There is nothing so moving – not even acts of love or hate – as the discovery that one is not alone.

If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of...

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

I had fallen in love with a young man…, and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis… Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have...

I must have told her I loved her a thousand times. But none of that matters now that she has discovered that I told her best friend I loved her a thousand and one times.

That’s science fiction shit,” “It’s only fiction until science catches up.

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk… A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery...

What good is a secret if it remains a secret … Secrets are meant to be discovered…

It’s like looking through a microscope your whole life,” he (Justin) said. “You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.

It’s a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones...

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It...

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we...

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this...

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

Writing is discovering what you don’t know.

This is an extraordinarily broad discovery request.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about...

Like the discovery of most things – love and religion especially – she maintained the child’s arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace...

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and...

If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by definition, ‘discovery’ means you don’t know the answer when you start.

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is “the fear of the Lord”. Fear God and be wise.

Self-identity is about content not the container that carry the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you…

Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

A story about the Jack Spratts of medicine [was] told recently by Dr. Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He had been invited to a conference of heart specialists in North America. On the eve...

If you have to dig to find yourself, you are probably dead.