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Archimedes

Quoted in De Architectura, by Vitruvius

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Discovery

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Archimedes

Author

Vitruvius

Source

De Architectura

Language

Greek

Time

212 BC 210s BC 3rd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Archimedes. Stated this after stepping into a bath and noticed that the water level rose. c. 212 BC.

Current Citation

Archimedes. Quoted in Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. Dover Publications, 1960.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Travel Discovery Different perspectives Empathy

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

The Prisoner In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière [The Prisoner]. Paris: Gallimard, 1923.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Prisoner. Penguin Classics, 2019.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Discovery Originality Creativity

Speaker

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Sailing Discovery Ocean and sea

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein

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New ideas Discovery Intuition Innovation Creativity

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Letters of Albert Einstein

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, 3 May 1949.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

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Discovery Imagination

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

The Advancement of Learning

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1605 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 2, sect. 5.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Taking risks Courage Discovery

Speaker

Edouard

Author

Andre Gide

Source

The Counterfeiters

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 15.

Discovery is discernment, selection.

Henri Poincaré

Science and Method

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Discovery

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Henri Poincaré

Source

Science and Method

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Poincare, Henri. Science et methode [Science and Method]. Flammarion, 1914, bk. 1, ch. 3.

The gods did not intimate all things to men straight away, but in time, through seeking, their discoveries improve.

Xenophanes

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Topic

Curiosity Discovery Seeking Progress God and man

Author

Xenophanes

Medium

Presocratic fragment Fragment

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Xenophanes. Fragments. 5th century BC, F19 - DK21B18.

Current Citation

Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, F19 - DK21 B18.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

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Credit Discovery Science

Author

Francis Darwin

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Darwin, Francis. "Francis Galton." Eugenics Review, April 1914.

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

W.G. Sebald

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Dogs Animals Discovery

Speaker

W.G. Sebald

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Sebald, Winifred Georg. Interview with Joe Cuomo. Queens College Evening Reading Series. 13 Mar. 2001, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. Question and answer session.