(564 quotes found)
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
Arthur Koestler
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
Sigmund Freud
“Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?”
Virginia Woolf
“The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike”
Jacob Bronkowski
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Anais Nin
“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view”
Max Planck
“Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.”
Alan Valentine
“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure”
Herbert Hoover
“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious”
Henry Louis Mencken
“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.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
