101Kidz : Quotations : Discovery
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne


A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi


One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide


The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin


There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams


The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert


All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei


No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller


The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
- Isaac Asimov


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.
- 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


Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce


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


There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
- Richard Feynman


He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

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