Quotes About Discovery

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

A storm broke loose in my mind.

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

As Lad passed in through the doorway, he halted involuntarily in dismay. Dogs—dogs—DOGS! More than two thousand of them, from Great Dane to toy terrier, benched in row after row throughout the vast floor space of the Garden! Lad had never known there were so many dogs on earth.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.

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

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

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

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

Even so, I'm somebody. I'm the Discoverer of Nature. I'm the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the Universe Because I bring the Universe to itself.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."