discoverer

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Meaning

One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.

A scout; an explorer.

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The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar. George Henry Lewes

The moral hero, guided as he or she is by the ethical experience, who carves out an adventurous path is akin to the discoverer who brings order into the scattered elements of a science or the artist who composes a piece of music or designs buildings. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. Milan Kundera

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. George Stigler

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. Apuleius

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