Quotes About Discovery

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

True progress in every scientific field means that the problems become multiplied and that new questions keep coming to the surface.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does

Art is I; science is we

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Real friends root for you, support you and help you discover your inner talents and strengths.

Sometimes the one you love turns out to be the one who hurts you the most, and sometimes the friend who takes you into his arms and cries when you cry turns out to be the love you never knew you wanted.

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been