Quotes About Discovery

When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Science is the only savior.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.