Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein 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
It's a blessing in a scientific career - the almost daily thrill of scientific discovery. — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” — Stephen M. Stigler 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
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
“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
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 consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye… — Norbert Wiener 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
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
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
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
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
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
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for… — Marie Curie 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
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are… — Rupert Sheldrake 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
“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy.… — Alexander Humboldt 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
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“What is Science, What is Holy (Sonnet) There is no greater spiritual journey than the rejection of prejudice, there is no greater… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“True genius is the one of the heart, not of intellect. Because intellect-less heart, though exploited a lot, still does good, whereas… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image