Quotes About Discovery

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Knowledge is the death of research.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.