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Quotes About Discovery

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
~ Gary Bauer
Freedom, the first-born of science.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
~ Susan Howatch
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.
~ William Cecil Dampier
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.
~ George Carlin
There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.
~ Griffin Jay
science is the most revolutionary force in the world.
~ George Sarton
Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.
~ Henri Poincare
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
~ Warren E. Burger
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.
~ Hod Lipson
It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.
~ Hosain Rahman
My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.
~ Howard Bloom
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
~ Isaac Asimov
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.
~ Isaac Asimov
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
~ J. Arthur Thomson
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
~ James F. Cooper
Art is science made flesh.
~ Jean Cocteau