Discovery Quote by Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

— William Kingdon Clifford

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

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest…

— Ralph Linton

The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and…

— Oliver Lodge

Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than…

— James Jeans

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

Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel…

— William Stanley Jevons

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

— Edward Abbey

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the…

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Koestler

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

— Henri Poincare