Research Quote by Quammen, David

“When it is found (as generally happens) that what is observed is only similar to what he had in mind and not identical, then…

— David Bohm

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

— Robert MacArthur

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

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

— Jan Peacock

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“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

“Repeated elements encourage comparison of like objects and force our eye to follow from one element to the next, even when those elements only…

— Joshua Field

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

— Stephen Hawking

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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