Quotes About Discovery

No man can discover his own talents.

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

Man lives for science as well as bread.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.