Quotes About Discovery

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

Science is uncertain.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.