Eureka! I have found it!
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention than to any other talent.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
In 1963, when I assigned the name 'quark' to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been 'kwork.'
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
It suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain.
In this Archipelago there are two distinct faunas rigidly circumscribed, which differ as much as those of South America and Africa.
The events which formed a turning-point in my life were, first, my acquaintance with Bates, and second, my reading Malthus.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders.
