Benjamin Disraeli Discovery Quotations

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.