Discovery Quotes

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. (William James)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. View quote
Arthur Koestler
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme. View quote
Howard Carter
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. View quote
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. View quote
Frank Herbert
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. View quote
Enrico Fermi
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. View quote
Paul Valéry
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. View quote
Will Durant
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. View quote
Albert Einstein
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. View quote
Alexander Smith
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. View quote
Hannah Arendt
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes. View quote
Marcel Proust
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis. View quote
Don Tapscott
...when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished – for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas. (K. Barry Sharpless)
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. View quote
Samuel Smiles
It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery. View quote
Howard Carter
There is no better high than discovery. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. View quote
Will Durant