discovery Quotes

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."

"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."

"What you can't imagine, you can't discover."

"Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles."

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"