Discovery Quotes

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and ‘search’ is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity , of things one is not in quest of.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.