Top Discovery Quotes
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
Frederick Sanger
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
William Kingdon Clifford
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike
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Pearl S. Buck 
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The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
Howard Carter 
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.
Sarah Palin
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The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.
Johannes Stark
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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Joseph Rotblat
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
Charles Bradlaugh
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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