Quotes About Discovery

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.