Art Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists…

— Charles Darwin

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new…

— Claude Bernard

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

— George Polya

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime of truth.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

— Charles Caleb Colton

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make…

— Esther Hicks