Accounts Quote by Ernest Starling

I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,'…

— Karl Popper

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our…

— Norbert Wiener

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

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

— Gaston Bachelard

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific…

— Anonymous

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 don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing…

— Christiaan Barnard

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we…

— Paul Davies

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able…

— Hermann Bondi

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble…

— Jimmy Sangster

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to…

— Alfred North Whitehead