Quotes about Discovery

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom.

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

A storm broke loose in my mind.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore.