Best Scientific Discovery Quotes

46 Scientific Discovery quotes by 44 unique authors

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the… — Rupert Sheldrake
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably… — Paul Davies
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. — Albert Einstein
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. — Max Planck
[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room.… — Isaac Asimov
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure… — Marie Curie
What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this,… — Cecelia Ahern
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without… — Lloyd Alexander
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the… — Bill Bryson
By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock… — Albert Hofmann
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the… — Unknown Author
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn… — Timothy Noah
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of… — Marie Rutkoski
The irrefutable fact is that Christianity gave birth to modern science. The scientific revolution began with the Protestant Reformation and the Bible played a vital… — Glen Rambharack
Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the… — Marie Curie

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