Quotes About Discovery

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.