Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

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

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

I am not really an inventor. I just steal my ideas from 8-year olds.

There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.

From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader in science and research.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.