Quotes About Discovery

Everything is still confused, and there is a very great deal that remains to be understood.

Ever since we discovered that the Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

With a great deal of effort, seeking help from friends better versed in mathematics than himself, Einstein learns Riemann's math—and writes an equation where R is proportional to the energy of matter. In words: spacetime curves more where there is matter. That is it.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so. One

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

For the first time in the history of mankind, an experiment is made. Experimental science begins with Galileo.

There is our past: all the events that happened before what we can witness now. There is our future: the events that will happen after the moment from which we can see the here and now. Between this past and this future there is an interval that is neither past nor future and still has a duration: fifteen minutes on Mars; eight years on Proxima b; millions of years in the Andromeda galaxy. It is the expanded present.28 It is perhaps the greatest and strangest of Einstein's discoveries.

Special relativity may be summarized as the discovery that there exists a maximum velocity for all physical systems. Quantum mechanics can be summarized as the discovery that there exists a maximum of information for each physical system.

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Infinite', ultimately, is the name that we give to what we do not yet know. Nature appears to be telling us that there is nothing truly infinite.

Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking.

One hundred thousand years ago our species left Africa, compelled perhaps by precisely this curiosity, learning to look ever farther afield. Flying over Africa by night, I wondered if one of these distant ancestors setting out toward the wide-open spaces of the North could have looked up into the sky and imagined a distant descendant flying up there, pondering on the nature of things, and still driven by his very same curiosity.

Copernicus, gezegenlerin dans?n?n merkezinde dünyan?n de?il, güne?in oldu?unu anlad? ve bunu kan?tlad?. Gezegenimiz di?erleri gibi bir gezegen konumuna geldi.

In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.

La capacidad de comprender antes de ver constituye el corazón del pensamiento científico.

Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The

Our entire current technology is founded on the use of a physical thing-electromagnetic waves-that was not discovered empirically: it was predicted by Maxwell, simply by searching for the mathematical description accounting for the intuition Faraday got from bobbins and needles. This is the outstanding power of theoretical physics.

Looking at the sun going down, the eyes of Copernicus had seen the world turning. Looking at a glass of still water, the eyes of Boltzmann saw atoms and molecules frenziedly moving.

Science begins with a vision.

Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.

Physics opens windows through which we see far into the distance. What we see does not cease to astound us. We realize that we are full of prejudices and that our intuitive image of the world is partial, parochial, inadequate

Remember that a key result of quantum mechanics is precisely the fact that information is finite. The number of alternative results that we can obtain measuring a physical system* is infinite in classical mechanics; but thanks to quantum theory, we have understood that, in reality, it is finite. Quantum mechanics can be understood as the discovery that information in nature is always finite.

It is characteristic of genius to be aware of the limitations of its own findings

Quantum gravity is the discovery that no infinitely small point exists. There is a lower limit to the divisibility of space.