Quotes About Discovery

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

It is the theory which decides what can be observed

Look to the stars and from them learn.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku ?ovje?anstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

Mozart's music was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell .

It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine—each was discovered by one man.

You can never be too smart to know everything. Everyday you learn new things through events that transpire daily in your life

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I have no doubt that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself all at once. We see him only the way a louse that sits upon him would.

Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself.

Tidak ada eksperimen yang bisa membuktikn aku benar, namun sebaliknya sebuah eksperimen saja bisa membuktikan aku salah.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Kebanyakan orang mengatakan bahwa kecerdasanlah yang melahirkan seorang ilmuwan besar. Mereka salah, karakterlah yang melahirkannya.

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

He who finds the heart that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

The world belongs to the people who are curious.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key to the understanding of the phenomena of nature.