The difference between Discovery and Invention

An invention is completely new to the world and it is about creating something totally new with one's own ideas and development, whereas a discovery is recognition of something that already existed but till the time, no one was able to find it. Invention is creating something original and advanced, typically a process or a device. Discovery generally represents natural occurrences, while inventions represent scientific, human made artifacts of processes etc. Discovery is done by EXPLORATION, while invention gets success by EXPERIMENTATION. From scientific point of view, a discovery cannot be patented but an invention can be patented. America was discovered by Columbus and telephone was invented y Graham Bell. It's always said, "All you need for a great invention is within yourself".                                                                                                                                       - Dhruva Kakkad