Quotes About Discovery

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Our true mentor in life is science.

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Science brings men nearer to God.

To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

We need to make science cool again.

To understand is to invent.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.