Quotes About Discovery

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

There are no limits to what science can explore.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.