to discover

Synonyms

detect discover invent

Examples

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. Leonhard Euler

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. H. L. Mencken

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William Arthur Ward

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley

Words in the phrase

to discover

Close letter words and terms

to discern to disclose to discompose to discuss to disentangle to disgrace