Advance Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

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

I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,'…

— Karl Popper

“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong…

— Alexander Von Humboldt

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.”

— Nina Teicholz

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any…

— John Desmond Bernal

“My science is based in voraciously wandering fact, luscious speculation, and spontaneous theory with a dash of prevarication. All of which are most likely…

— J. DeWayne Pierce

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make…

— Esther Hicks

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress…

— William Lanouette

“...the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of…

— Gene Wolfe

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the…

— John Polkinghorne