Quotes About Discovery

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

I didn't think; I experimented.

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.