Expect Quote by Ian Hacking

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

— Ian Hacking

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

— Michael Crichton

Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering'…

— Ian Hacking

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

— Brian Cox

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be…

— Annette Curtis Klause

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

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

— John Charles Polanyi

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

— Madeleine L'Engle

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every…

— Ernest Starling