Quotes About Discovery

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

I've always been interested in science fiction

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.