These discovery quotes are surprisingly insightful:
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Andre Gide
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently. -Ira Erwin
I do not seek. I find. -Pablo Picasso
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. -Lyn Yutang
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -Samuel Smiles
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. -Alan Alda
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -James Thurber
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. -George Moore
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. -Aurthur H. Compton
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. -Alexander Graham Bell
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. -Claude Bernard
Learn to see, and then you’ll know there is no end to the new worlds of our vision. -Carlos Castaneda
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to paying attention, than to any other talent. -Isaac Newton
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -A.A Milne
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. -Richard Feynman
The more original a discovery, the more obvious is seems afterwards. -Aurthur Koestler
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. -Sir Issac Newton
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. -Diane Acherman
An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery. -Enrico Fermi
Which of these sayings about discovery are your favorites?
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