Awful Quote by Paul Davies

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble…

— Jimmy Sangster

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can…

— Arthur William Galston

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

— David Mermin

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

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we…

— Theobald Smith

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

— Anonymous

“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Michael Crichton

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