Belief Quote by Carl Sagan

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain…

— Edward Boyden

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

— Bertrand Russell

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

— Thomas A. Edison

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all…

— Joseph John Thomson

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

— Noam Chomsky

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we…

— Immanuel Kant

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“We still don’t have a clue about what’s going on in the human brain. We have theories; we just don’t know for sure. We…

— Annie Jacobsen

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

— Cornelia Parker

“The theory of serendipitous creativity, in other words, seems well justified by the historical record. The transistor, we can argue with some confidence, probably…

— Cal Newport

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe