Quotes About Discovery

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Religion has always persecuted science.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.