Discovery Process Quotes

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

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.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it.

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.