Quotations on Discovery
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
-Alfred North Whitehead
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
-Isaac Newton
Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-Arthur Koestler
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
-Galileo Galilei
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.
-John N. Bahcall

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