A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world. — Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. — Albert SzentGyorgyi
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. — Robert L. Park
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. — Alan Valentine
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. — Ernest Rutherford
The scientific method is a powerful tool for discovering objective truths about the world. — Bret Weinstein
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell
This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans. — Brian Swimme
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
There is no better high than discovery. — E. O. Wilson
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. — Abdus Salam
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. — Vera Rubin
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus
The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" — Robert Ballard
Scientific Discovery Image Quotes
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Discovery Words Quotes
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions. — Ambrose Bierce
To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at. — Shane Koyczan
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. — Dennis Roch
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. — Northrop Frye
In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery. — Bryant H. McGill
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in
the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least
difference. In other words, if they were hit by a truck, the same
discovery would be made by somebody else about 10 minutes later. — Aubrey de Grey
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay. — Terry Tempest Williams
Discovery In Science Quotes
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — Lord Kelvin
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. — Richard P. Feynman
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. — Albert Einstein
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. — Albert Einstein
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. — Marie Curie
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. — Robert Trout
I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery... — Gertrude B. Elion
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. — Sydney Brenner
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. — Marianne Williamson
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. — Isaac Newton
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth. — Travis Rice
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life? — Jean Piaget
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself. — Myles Munroe
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. — Seymour Papert
Discovery And Invention Quotes
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. — Archimedes
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. — Joline Godfrey
The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. These revolutions arose from the discovery, beginning just over a century ago, of the three fundamental kernels of our existence: the atom, the bit, and the gene. — Jennifer Doudna
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized — Simone de Beauvoir
We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history. — Rishi Sunak
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. — Carol P. Christ
Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. — Lukas Foss
The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. — Samuel Smiles
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. — Samuel Smiles
The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
Scientific Research Quotes
The scientific research will tell you that the more income you get the more happy you will become, but once you get to average income your happiness plateaus. — Mo Gawdat
The future, with its needs and challenges, calls upon us to embark on a perpetual quest for alternative sources of energy. This can only be done through the support of relevant scientific research. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
I made the key discovery for CRISPR there, while living in my scientific monastery in northern Sweden. At the same time, I was very interested in detective stories, searching for enigmas. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. — Frederick Sanger
If we can validate our scientific bets in the clinic, if we can bring valuable new treatments to patients that need them, that will be our ultimate measure of success. — Vivek Ramaswamy
The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings. — Tom DeLay
Friendship is a buried treasure waiting to be discovered.
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. — Thad Cochran
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? — Seth Lloyd
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction. — Francis William Aston
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. — Max Gluckman
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth. — Akiane Kramarik
Ethics is not just something that people worry about and discuss; it's actually something that needs to be integrated into the process of scientific discovery and technological development. — Jennifer Doudna
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. — Meher Baba
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results. — Lord Kelvin
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. — William Lawrence Bragg
The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote. — Albert A. Michelson
Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value. — John A. McDougall
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow. — C. Northcote Parkinson
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things. — Alan Arkin
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become more and more conscious of the fact that the universe is cognizable. — Georges Lemaitre
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. — Max Planck
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. — Albert Einstein
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries. — Herbert Hoover
We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me. — Allan Savory
Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country. — Glenn T. Seaborg
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting. — Carlo Rubbia
The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis. — Robert Jastrow
[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied' in isolation for the sake of their own consistency. — Edsger Dijkstra
Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer. — Stephen Hawking
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them. — Charles Darwin
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. — Norbert Wiener
If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous. — E. O. Wilson
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives. — Lloyd Alexander
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. — George Stigler
The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science. — George Coyne
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us. — Sayings
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor. — Louis Pasteur
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. — Judy Biggert
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein
No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness. — Henry C. Link
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution. — E. O. Wilson
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