The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, ba….
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library ought to be composed half of….
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden..
Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?.
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them….
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion ….
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, ….
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control..
Mistakes are the doorway to discovery..
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices..
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a par….
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great b….
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific….
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal..
Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery cons….
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them..
I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel uncomfortable with. At a c….
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] bec….
There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. ….
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future... If someone can h….
We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made..