Quotes About Insight

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Combine science and humanities.