Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge 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
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
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
