Scientific Discovery Quotes

46 quotes by 44 authors

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its… — Jean Piaget
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience… — Norbert Wiener
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist… — C. Northcote Parkinson
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the… — Hans Reichenbach
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two… — Gertrude B. Elion
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its… — Francis Crick
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. — Albert Einstein
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from… — Robert P. Crease
A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every… — Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related… — Northrop Frye
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it's not for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike. — Jacob Bronowski
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of… — Judy Biggert
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. — Ernest Rutherford
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity â€” and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance… — E. O. Wilson
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden

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