Top 252 Discovery Quotes

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It’s a testament to our time.
John Glenn
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don’t know and you assume that many of your readers don’t know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
Tom Wolfe
If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery… and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.
Chris Meledandri
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.
Paul Davies
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
Chris Hayes
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
Spike Jonze
I think that people in America, unfortunately or fortunately, are just discovering different aspects of the humanity of African-American people. And so I think with that discovery comes, ‘Oh, you could be a superhero; you could be president or whatever it is that we thought you couldn’t be.’
Salim Akil
Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now ‘see’ the individual atoms and molecules.
William Henry Bragg
Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn’t want visitors. It fears discovery.
Bill Buford
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I walked into a different phase of my life.
Catherine Oxenberg
Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful.
Charles Bradlaugh
I actually love the Discovery Channel.
Andrew Flintoff
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
Max Planck
What has now become conventional in terms of digital marketing and the discovery of new talent was once very unconventional – and people forget that.
Scooter Braun
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting.
Matt Walsh
I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough – I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.
Joachim Frank
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Stephen Gardiner
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you’re in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you’re in your zone.
Gilbert Hernandez
Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
John Zorn
I feel like Diana helped me explore so many depths of myself and really do a big internal discovery of what I was feeling about everything because she was a very complex person.
Emma Corrin
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you’ve shot, something organically reveals itself, and there’s a discovery process.
Max Joseph
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research ‘Here Be Dragons,’ I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.
Sharon Kay Penman
I’m not looking to step in and make ‘big, bold changes’ – I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.
Yishan Wong
During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation – namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins – was a central topic in molecular biology.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.
Harper Reed
I did some rescue work for Hurricane Katrina victims with a group of rescue people called Best Friends Society, who have a show on Discovery now called ‘Dogtown.’
Ivory
A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
Orlando Bloom
I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.
Jose Andres
For the second album, ‘Discovery,’ when we had to think about doing a live show I think we were not happy with the way it would look like and sound like. We were not happy coming onstage with just two or three samplers and a few drum machines, you know?
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There’s no joy of discovery in what you’re doing if that’s your strategy.
Bob Shacochis
I consider I’ve had a good day when, among the lines I’ve written, I’ve produced from my innermost core what I call ‘the appearance of the pearl.’ That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.
Ismail Kadare
It’s fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the final discovery and catches the bad guy.
Erica Durance
Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.
Sprague Grayden
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
Thomas Woods
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
Bryant H. McGill
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
David Gross
Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices.
Nancy Dubuc
Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don’t get breast cancer.
Craig Venter
There’s two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
The enthusiasm around carbon capture and sequestration was probably greater before the shale-gas discovery and the low prices were so prevalent.
Lynn Good
With Eric Rohmer – as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust – we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.
Andre Aciman
There was the slow discovery for me in the early ’80s that Republicans are people too… That Republicans are perfectly reasonable people… and that Republicans can be right about something.
Lawrence O’Donnell
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Charles Lyell
If there’s one thing for which I admire you, it’s your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.
Thomas Reed
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
Michael Shermer
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.
Joseph Rotblat
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
Phylicia Rashad
The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.
Selman Waksman
I support an equal playing field for plaintiffs and defendants – and the way to get that equal playing field is not by having unlimited discovery.
Amul Thapar
If you had to pay separately for just PBS, probably, sadly, not a majority of Americans would do that. So there’s many channels, whether it’s Discovery Channel or C-SPAN or many, many others, that just aren’t viable.
Brian L. Roberts