A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
This is the kind of discovery that resonates.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.