Are Better When Shared

Are Found

Are Known Without Being Taught

Become More Valuable When Shared

Become Real Only When Shared

Begin

Challenge Identity

Create Discontinuity

Create Interruption

Create Openings

Create Ripples

Create Surprise

Create Uncertainty

Depend On Timing

Disturb

End As Stories

Escape Gravity

Improve By Being Passed Along

Interrupt

Invite Departure

Make A Day Feel Shorter

Make Good Descendants

Mark Beginning

Redirect

Refuse Invisibility

Refuse To Stay Background

Reveal

Reward Arrival

Reward Boldness

Reward Departure

Reward Discontinuity

Reward Improvisation

Reward Temptation

Reward Urgency

Separate Eras

Violate Expectations

discovery

ocean

unknown

trivia

astronaut

scientist

species

alien

gravity

Sir Isaac Newton

sugar

mishearing

mountain

riddle

Mt. Everest

pyramid

Isaac Newton

research

Eureka

Only in this way, implies Latour, can we acknowledge that to make a scientific discovery is, at the same time, to change society. For Latour, this represents an advance on what has gone before, allowing us to see changes in science as themselves changes in society. (Bloor 1999 : 85)

is from the same Latin origin as 'to invent'. Inventing and discovering are the same thing.

As is well known, in Latin the word for to invent and to discover is the same. All of this is in accord with the Platonic doctrine that to invent, to discover, is to remember' (Borges 1980: 80)

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is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

not Eureka! (I found it!) but That's funny...

is a thing which, if it is of importance, had undoubtedly already been said before by somebody who did not, as it were, 'discover' it.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

 consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)

has never been made without a bold guess.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. Isaac Newton

discovery, n.All

discovery