Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

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

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

[Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.]