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Quotes about Discovery
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide, French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)
CP Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, US (Hungarian-born) biochemist (1893 - 1986)
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler, British (Hungarian-born) author (1905 - 1983)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 - 1922)
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller, US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin, US historian (1914 - )
CP I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton, English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
- Richard Feynman, US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
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