Quotes About Insight

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Research is appreciation.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

Perception defines everything.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.