It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.
I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called 'Diagnosis: Unknown.'
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking
Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
