Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“I am not going to apologize for scientific discovery that prevents the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“Claiming sole credit for scientific discovery is like claiming sole credit for a movie. Just like you and everyone involved, I played… — Lashon Byrd Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge,… — Robert P. Crease Copy Share Image
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Alex nodded. This did indeed make sense, providing that one was prepared to cast away all that three hundred years of scientific… — Martin Dukes Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit… — Alexander Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov 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
We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“While researchers strive to expand the frontiers of human faculties, the products of their endeavors tend to dull the creative urge of… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image