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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone?
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.
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
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.