Quotes About Discovery

Meditation is the gateway to innovation. Archaeologists explore terrain once occupied; Writers and inventors excavate spaces yet conceived.

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions