[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define ‘serendipity’ as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you...

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands...

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Sometimes we go along, thinking”Ah, this is it – this is what true peace feels like…” Then, in a moment of grace, something shifts in our hearts, and in awestruck wonder, we whisper, “oh my,...

But I think I’m broken too. I just don’t know it yet.

It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits from knowing the secrets of Nature, whether it is ready to...

The parent is the child’s guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds...

Good” now is better than “Best” never.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries...

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel’s definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and...

It was youWho opened meLooked into my soulTo study meYou revealed youTo uncover me.

While the HP story has been strengthened with Peregrine’s asset discovery capabilities, the acquisition of most of its relationship discovery partners leaves them vulnerable.

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical...

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

I do not seek. I find.

The word “travel” comes from the Old French word “travail” (or “travailler”), which means “to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience.” (“Travel,” thus, is “a painful and...

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

You seem to like helping, taking care of people,” he said. “That is admirable.””You enjoy being nurtured?””Well, that isn’t all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want...

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, ‘I propose to have an...

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

One reason we went the civil route with this is that it allows us to go through the discovery process, under which defendants will have to turn over their [tenant] records to us.

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and those that did not. Further she related this difference to the chemical constitution of...

Building a museum case and filling it with types of mussels is one way of knowing mussels; but on the shore, a mussel leads to a crab or a curious stone, which leads to another...

At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies themselves were away travelling. It was a cross between a stable and a...

Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will not necessarily be more damaged than a Survivor who has been...

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

As every circumstance relating to so capital a discovery as this (the greatest, perhaps, that has been made in the whole compass of philosophy, since the time of Sir Isaac Newton) cannot but give pleasure...

If you tell somebody something, you’ve forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery . . .

At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchhoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchhoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the...

O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of...

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city…you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were...

Discovery’s friend is creativity

We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only...

As I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the light of day away to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery’s being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880’s, science played almost...

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during...

The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is obvious is not necessarily true. When the structure of hemoglobin was finally solved,...