1,204 Quotes About Discovery

A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

The more one discovers, the more one realizes how much more there is to discover.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

Follow the clues of investigation to breakthrough.

With each failure, the sweet smell of discovery gets stronger.

Research is an endless loop of failures interspersed with occasional profound discoveries.