Quotes About Discovery

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

Science is always inquiring.