Concerned Quote by Talcott Parsons

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

— Claude Bernard

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our…

— Norbert Wiener

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

— Ernest Rutherford

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a…

— Abraham Maslow

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their…

— John Charles Polanyi

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in…

— Max Planck

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

— John A. McDougall

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

— Isaac Asimov

“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided…

— Andrew Hodges

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit…

— Bill Bryson

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel