Quotes About Breakthrough

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Waiting. For that missing seed crystal of thought that would suddenly solidify everything.

In der Wissenschaft kommt es alle paar Jahre vor, daß etwas, das bis dahin als Fehler galt, plötzlich alle Anschauungen umkehrt oder daß ein unscheinbarer und verachteter Gedanke zum Herrscher über ein neues Gedankenreich wird.

My performance as Major Breakthrough (whose comrades in arms include Private Bath, Corporal Punishment and General Nuisance) had improved somewhat.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.