953 – “Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.”

-Thomas Edison

747 – “Vim coeli reserate viri: venit agnita ad usus: Ignotae videas commoda nulla rei.”

“Discover the force of the heavens O Men: Once recognized it can be put to use: No use could be seen in unknown things.”

–Johannes Kepler

688 – “The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been.”

–Francis Phillip Wernig [See Source Notes]

618 – “The Universe is probably littered with one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space – each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”

–Randall Munroe

580 -“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘eureka!’ but ‘that’s funny….'”

–Isaac Asimov

418 – “Realism is concerned only with the external shell of nature. People content with the discoveries they have made ignore the fact that there are other things to be discovered, even broader avenues to be explored.”

–Edvard Munch [Full Quote Below]

269 – “Experiments are not about discovery but about listening and translating the knowledge of other beings.”

–Robin Wall Kimmerer