Curious Quote by F. C. S. Schiller

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

When we feel like we discover something, we are usually uncovering or realizing what has always been there. The laws of nature are always…

— Tara Stiles

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any…

— John Desmond Bernal

The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility…

— Albert A. Michelson

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

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

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

— Isaac Asimov

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost…

— Henry David Thoreau