Quotes About Insight

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Intelligence is not a science.

Madness, and then illumination.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

To understand is to invent.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.