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If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

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.

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

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.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

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.