Credit Quote by Bill Bryson

“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong…

— Alexander Von Humboldt

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

— Leo Szilard

“Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last,…

— Matthew Pearl

“Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before.…

— Louis Agassiz

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

— Michael Crichton

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their…

— John Charles Polanyi

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make…

— Esther Hicks

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is…

— Alice Dreger

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with…

— Talcott Parsons