"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."

Frye, Northrop on poetry and poets   

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

James, William on attitude
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"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

Newton, Sir Isaac on patience
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"I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

Curie, Madame Marie on evil   

"Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it."

Valentine, Alan on evil
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"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried."

Tyger, Frank on courage
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"He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries."

Unknown, Source on imitation
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"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

Milne, A. A. on organization   

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

Smith, Alexander on love
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"All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking."

Parkhurst, Charles H. on thoughts and thinking   

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on obstacles
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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

Gyorgyi, Albert on invention and inventor   

"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."

Bristol, Claude M. on thoughts and thinking   

"It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm."

Henle, Mary on creativity   

"The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."

Smiles, Samuel on difficulties
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"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."

Bell, Alexander Graham on invention and inventor   

"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view."

Addison, Joseph on admiration
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"We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

Smiles, Samuel on failure
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on prejudice
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"There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed."

Darwin, Francis on excellence   

"Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on astronomy
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"Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone."

Hannah, John A. on education   

"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."

Lerner, Max on men
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

Ford, Henry on fear
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"We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

Smiles, Samuel on mistakes
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"Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true."

Keats, John on failure
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"The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on failure
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discovery
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"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."

Durant, William J. on education
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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

Joyce, James on mistakes
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"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

Joyce, James on mistakes
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"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."

Smiles, Samuel on mistakes
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"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on world   

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Doren, Mark Van on teacher
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"Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries."

Kundera, Milan on criticism   

"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."

Koestler, Arthur on originality   

"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Melville, Herman on originality
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"Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."

Mill, John Stuart on originality
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"Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism."

Voltaire on originality
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