Quotes About Discovery

God had created the universe as a way of sorting through the great library, finding those books that were most beautiful and meaningful.

Lastly, you are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

to absorb, explore, and expand the intricacies of those bewitching systems;

Peter Samson and his friends had grown up with a specific relationship to the world, wherein things had meaning only if you found out how they worked.

Is it possible that a person's childhood fascination with some object could subtly influence every other decision made during his or her life, a snowballing of interests, propelled by obsession and compulsion, that rolls on long after the initial discovery is forgotten?

1879 a little girl ran shouting to her father about bulls – it was the discovery of paintings in Altamira Cave.

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark."

The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.

4. You've had enough of the big city and decide to return home. Waiting for a bus, you pick up a discarded copy of Larva and, because you have a long bus-ride ahead of you, begin reading. You quickly discover it is not a conventional novel. Do you: (a) discard it and stare out the window all the way back home? (b)

Doar pentru c? nu ?tim cum func?ioneaz? un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? nu func?ioneaz?.

Driving around the West, I was like an illiterate man staring into a book; he doesn't understand what exactly he's seeing, but he damn sure knows it's important

The whining and fighting during that two-hour car ride to the lake may make you want to bag the whole trip. No matter what, though, stick with it. I have faith that you'll eventually find, or reconnect with, the addictive qualities of nature.

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My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

The search for predictive and explanatory general rules—that's the crux of our game.

at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.

There is a spooky quality about the ability of mathematicians to get there ahead of physicists. It's as if when Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon he found in the lunar dust the footsteps of Jules Verne.

Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.

I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.

La ciencia es acumulativa; cada nueva teoría incorpora las teorías anteriores válidas como aproximaciones, e incluso explica por qué esas aproximaciones funcionan, caso de que así sea.

El gran éxito de Newton consistió en explicar los movimientos de los planetas, no simplemente en describirlos. Newton no explicó la gravitación, y sabia que no lo había hecho, pero es lo que ocurre siempre con las explicaciones, que siempre queda algo para una futura explicación.

But every once in a while someone finds a way of explaining some phenomenon that fits so well and clarifies so much that it gives the finder intense satisfaction, especially when the new understanding is quantitative, and observation bears it out in detail. Imagine

What is important in science (I leave philosophy to others) is not the solution of some popular scientific problems of one's own day, but understanding the world. In the course of this work, one finds out what sort of explanations are possible, and what sort of problems can lead to those explanations. The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.