Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.”
Not only Planck but also other physicists were initially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
Referring to the difficulties physicists experienced understanding the discovery that energy exchange is quantized, in Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988), p. 134
[Schwarz, J. H., Introduction to superstring theory, 2000, arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0008017, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008017] p. 5
Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
reported by Lance Dixon http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10/03/guest-post-lance-dixon-on-calculating-amplitudes/
As quoted in White Coat Tales : Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures (2007) by Robert B. Taylor, p. 141. The original Source is the last sentence of https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/pierre-curie-lecture.pdf
Misattributed
"Poetry" (1977)
“The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.”
“Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it.”
Reading Modern Poetry, London, 1989
“Every discovery takes place in more than a scientific context.”
in his Nobel lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1987/pedersen-lecture.html, December 8, 1987.
