Quotes About Discovery

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Research is appreciation.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Let the experiment be made.