DISCOVERY

Related Subjects: Invention, Pioneer, Progress

1. It is the modest, not the presumptuous inquirer, who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. He follows God in his works and in his word.—BOLINGBROKE
   

2. Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the greatest chain of order.—E. H. CHAPIN
   

3. It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.—C. C. COLTON
   

4. It is a profound mistake to think that everything has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.—LEMIERRE
   

5. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.—SIR ISAAC NEWTON