Quotes About Discovery

I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.