Acquaintance Quote by William Stanley Jevons

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

— William Kingdon Clifford

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of…

— C. V. Raman

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

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature.…

— Tsung-Dao Lee

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

— Samuel Johnson

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected…

— Olympia Brown

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

— Robert Fripp