Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that… — Albert A. Michelson Copy Share Image
When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
