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Albert Einstein1 quote
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein · 1949Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi1 quote
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. — Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi · 1962Andre Gide1 quote
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide · 1925Archimedes1 quote
Eureka! — Archimedes · 212 BCFrancis Bacon1 quote
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon · 1605Francis Darwin1 quote
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. — Francis Darwin · 1914Henri Poincare1 quote
Discovery is discernment, selection. — Henri Poincare · 1908Marcel Proust1 quote
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 · 1922Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
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 · 1798W.G. Sebald1 quote
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 · 2001Xenophanes1 quote
The gods did not intimate all things to men straight away, but in time, through seeking, their discoveries improve. — Xenophanes