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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.

— Charles Lyell

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Arthur Koestler

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

— Charles Lyell

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

— Martin Chalfie

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

— Vash Young

No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

— Ken Ham

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

— Robert Barany

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

— Michael Aspel

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

— Robert Vaughn

✗Opposing Perspectives

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

— Phil Crosby

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.

— Enrico Fermi