Quotes About Insight

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

If only I knew now what I know in the future.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.

It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.

I know what ails you.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

Light brings us the news of the Universe.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

I'll show you my theory, if you show me yours.

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.