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SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Discovery✕clear

Interview

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

W.G. Sebald

2001

★ 1.7

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

1914

★ 1.8

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

The gods did not intimate all things to men straight away, but in time, through seeking, their discoveries improve.

Xenophanes

★ 2.0

Scientific literature

Discovery is discernment, selection.

Henri Poincare

Science and Method · 1908

★ 2.7

Novel

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

1605

★ 3.6

Poem · Narrative poem

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Letter

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein

1949

★ 3.7

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

1962

★ 4.3

Novel · Modernist literature

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 7.0

Eureka!

Archimedes

Vitruvius, De Architectura · 212 BC

★ 7.5

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