I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
You basically only discover a new thing once.
If I don't create, I don't exist.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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 real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.