“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”
Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985) Bridging the present and the future: IEEE Professional Communication Society conference record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985. p. 14.
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