Accomplished Quote by Elihu Burritt

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have…

— Frederick Reines

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works,…

— Joseph Priestley

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course…

— John Dewey

My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from the multitude…

— Albert Einstein

I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus…

— Georges Braque

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

— B. F. Skinner

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would…

— Richard Dawkins