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They are ill
discoverers that think there is no land when they see
nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
The way a
child discovers the world constantly replicates the way
science began. You start to notice what's around you, and
you get very curious about how things work. How things
interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues
you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its
friends are; what it eats.
-- David Cronenberg
1943-, Canadian Filmmaker
If a man knew
anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is
such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down,
and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
What has
become clear to you since we last met?
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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The discovery
of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not
be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays
itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The
world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all
areas of social activity, merit was less important here than
opportunity.
-- Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
If we make a
couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe
things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water
when we dig in the earth, so we discover the
incomprehensible sooner or later.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist,
Satirist
A discovery is
said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hungarian Scientist
Discovery is
seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what
nobody else has thought.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hungarian Scientist
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