Quotes About Discovery

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

Science is the only true guide in life.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.