Century Quote by Alfred Noyes

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new…

— Claude Bernard

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

— Stephen Hawking

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist…

— Peter Medawar

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining,…

— Carl Sagan

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our…

— Carlo Rovelli

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike

— Anonymous

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and…

— Oliver Lodge

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.”

— Max Planck