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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
Obstacles
Daniel J. Boorstin

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Teachers and Teaching
Mark Van Doren

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Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Education
William J. Durant

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Invention and Inventor
Albert Gyorgyi

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
Mistakes
James Joyce

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Mistakes
James Joyce

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

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
New World
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Mistakes
Samuel Smiles

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Love
Alexander Smith

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Discovery
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Discovery
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun