Discovery Quotes

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery" "I do not seek. I find. " "No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere." "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." "There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery." "To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment." "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." "When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." "The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it’s easy to fall off." "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me" "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks" "The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark" "I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination." "I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration is to me." "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds" "Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate" "Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?"