discovery quotes

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Time discovers truth.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

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.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

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

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.