Discovery Quote by Timothy Noah

“Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively…

— Douglas Hofstadter

“Science, however, is never conducted as a popularity contest, but instead advances through testable, reproducible, and falsifiable theories.”

— Michio Kaku

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

— David Grinspoon

I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds…

— Brian Greene

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart…

— Woody Allen

It's always interesting to bring scientists together, because they typically have very polarized views.

— Paul Allen

“Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.”

— John Brockman

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

— Michael Helm