Quotes About Discovery

La scoperta dell'energia atomica non ha creato un nuovo problema, ha solo reso più urgente la necessità di risolverne uno già esistente

Se sapessimo (esattamente) quel che stiamo facendo, non si chiamerebbe ricerca.

and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it can only be invented. [Letter to Karl Popper; 11 Sep 1939]

Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?

I love to travel but hate to arrive.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious

Daran habe ich gar nicht gedacht!

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Hmm, yes. Pig physics.

Read the Pig of Eden

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Follow your curiosity.

Secretul creativit??ii st? în ÅŸtiinÅ£a de a-Å£i ascunde sursele.

There is no doubt, that the special theory of relativity, if we regard its development in retrospect, was ripe for discovery in 1905.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

That fellow Einstein suits his convenience. Every year he retracts what he wrote the year before.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.)

Another interesting way in which the mechanistic worldview is being transcended is through discoveries having to do with chaos theory. It seems that systems of various kinds often exist in a state of chaos or, as they say, "on the edge of chaos," and then suddenly and unpredictably there emerges something called a "strange attractor" that rearranges the chaos into some new order.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col­lab­o­ra­tive act.

No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder of everything one doesn't know, the surveillance--and some of that overwhelming feeling may cling on, even after the rituals and conventions are learned, the geography mapped, and the natives found friendly.