Quotes About Discovery

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

Welcome to science. You're gonna like it here.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

Science is the search for truth.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes its glasses.