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Quotes About Discovery

Learn to discover your divine potential.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.
~ Kane Freeman
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
~ Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.
~ Wolf Pascoe, Breathing for Two
Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.
~ Eraldo Banovac
Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...
~ Edward O. Wilson
I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.
~ Marty Rubin
Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
~ David Brin, Existence
Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
~ Aldo Leopold
Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.
~ James Burke
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.
~ Madeleine L'Engle, Many Waters
The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.
~ Paul Greene, A Time of Change
Beware of finding what you're lookin
~ Richard Hamming
Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.
~ Stephen Strauss
My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
~ Marcel Pagnol
Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
~ Henri Poincare
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.
~ Dennis Flanagan
Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
~ Alan Valentine
Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.
~ E. Y. Harburg