Creative process Quote by William Lanouette

“Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

— Robert Fripp

“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining,…

— Carl Sagan

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin…

— Gene Wolfe

“None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have…

— Mary Shelley

“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most…

— Nora Bateson

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.”

— Carl Sagan

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

“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

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm…

— Seth Shostak