Discovery Quotes

“It is in the serendipitous that I find my pictures.”

“It was a magic moment. We were all jumping up and down, and I knew from then on I wasn’t going to be a DJ anymore.”

“The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box.”

“We have now seen the whole of the east coast of New Holland... and may now be able to give some account of its produce and people.”

“When you stop searching, you find that what you were searching for was always here.”

“The notion that the molecule that carries the genetic information, RNA, could also be a catalyst was a transformative idea.”

“The first definite proof of the reality of isotopes of stable elements was afforded by the element neon.”

“At the time, we were all looking for proteins that could do the job of catalyzing the reactions that are necessary for life.”

“I did not intend to set it on fire. But it caught fire anyway.”

“Variety of all kinds, Trees, Shrubbs, herbs, grasses etc. were here in a greater profusion than we had before met with.”

“The discovery of the past is the promise of the future.”

“To write is to discover what one thinks.”

“For me, the romance of science is not in the certainty of the answer, but in the burning, restless curiosity that drives the question.”

“Writing is a journey of discovery.”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”

“Eureka!”

“You are invited to come see the Earth turn.”

“The joy of science is the joy of discovery.”

“Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.”