Quotes About Discovery

Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

History is a science, no more and no less.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"