Discovery Quotes

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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 seashore, 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.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.