There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

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

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

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.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

A Prayer for Daily InsightOpen my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don’t...

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library… It was here that I found a source of knowledge and the means to acquire it by reading, a habit of learning which I...

In science … “discovery” can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

It was just such a sense of discovery happening that night, … We did a tour in the spring — this is God’s honest truth — and it wasn’t really together yet. At 10,000 Lakes...

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets.

If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein...

The vision of life is not a “discovery”; it’s a “work” and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing...

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution....

I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.

Scientology is an encyclopaedia for life. It’s non-denominational, it doesn’t judge, it’s a lot about self-discovery, and it helped me so much for one reason: it works. It helped me through my drugs, and it...

Wieder hob sie den Blick und richtete die Lampe auf ihr Gesicht. Sie schaute zum Fenster hinüber. Ihre Züge waren jetzt fast noch deutlicher. Sie konnte die Details um ihre Nase studieren, den Mund. Die...

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who...

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.

En el folclore de la ciencia hay una historia muchas veces contada sobre el momento del descubrimiento: la aceleración del pulso, la luminosidad espectral que adquieren hechos comunes y corrientes, el segundo de parálisis y...

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

How did I discover saccharin? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time on the compound radicals and substitution products of coal tar… One evening I was...

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and...

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

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

After you’ve seen behind the facade of a stage set you can’t take the play seriously any more. You can’t go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in...

Discovery is a leader in real-world entertainment. This is a tremendous opportunity to extend our reach by partnering with one of the most well-known and respected brands in the entertainment industry.

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

The rock I’d seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I’d never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary New England pegmatite – big, coarse granite – and laid bare...

There’s two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.

The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Don’t be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is...

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.

We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.

If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will eventually be discovered. But even if the majority view is correct,...

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.