Quotes About Discovery

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.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Science is the poetry of reality.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.