I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. Isaac Newton
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton
The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J Boorstin
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There’s two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. Enrico Fermi
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. Humphrey Davy
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. Albert Einstein
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. Mary Henle
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. Alexander Graham Bell