1,204 Quotes About Discovery
- Author Philip Emeagwali
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The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.
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- Author Pliny the Elder
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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- Author Thomas A. Edison
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A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."
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- Author Thomas A. Edison
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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- Author Werner Erhard
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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
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- Author Abe Fortas
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.
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- Author Aden Fine
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If the government utilizes the information in any manner, we're very likely going to need to do follow-up discovery.
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- Author Alexander Fleming
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It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
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- Author Alexander Fleming
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(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
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