Analysis Quote by Hans Reichenbach

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting…

— Anonymous

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

“Science is not interested in what stands to reason.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the…

— William Barrett

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

— Claude Bernard

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in…

— Max Planck

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

— Albert Einstein

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself…

— H. L. Mencken

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

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts…

— Freeman Dyson

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais