Quotes About Discovery

Play is the highest form of research.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The most amazing thing about the world is that we understand it.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

To know the secrets of Life, we must first become aware of their existence.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.