1,204 Quotes About Discovery

The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death; and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.

We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.

I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.

I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave.