Analogies Quote by William Kingdon Clifford

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

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

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

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

The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and…

— Oliver Lodge

Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist…

— Peter Medawar

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

— Thomas Hobbes

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight…

— Alfred North Whitehead

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

— Albert Einstein

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

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