Able Quote by Robert Barany

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

— Jamie Hyneman

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

— Harry Dean Stanton

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one…

— Isaac Asimov

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great…

— Karl Pearson

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted…

— Michael Nielsen

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much…

— Charles Lyell

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

— Isaac Newton

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory…

— Ernst Mayr

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

— Stephen M. Stigler

“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”

— Walker Percy