1,204 Quotes About Discovery

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.

Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.

While every year the Festival evolves and has a different complexion, the through line is the discovery of fresh, original voices from around the world with quality storytelling that takes risks whether it be in dramatic or documentary films.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.