Quotes About Discovery

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.

The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today.

Technology and Science is what you make it.

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.