1,204 Quotes About Discovery

Nature guards its secrets zealously, and it takes grit and determination to shed light on them.

I learned later that I had smartly discovered the way of defeating anything: believing that you're stronger than you are.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

I don't like museums, I like labs.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

Failures fuel my drive to discovery.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.