Quotes About Discovery

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.