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  • The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

  • The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

    Discovery   Law   Support  
  • There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

    Science   Discovery   Two  
    "Nuclear Principles in Engineering". Book by Tatjana Jevremovic, 2005.
  • We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

    Marie Curie's lecture at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, May 14, 1921.
  • It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

    "Starmen: Wolfgang Tillmans meets Dimitar Sasselov". Interview with Chris Hatherill, www.dazeddigital.com. August 20, 2010.
  • There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

  • May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

    Failure   Eye   Science  
  • The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

    Love   Life   God  
  • Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

    Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

    "Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950".
  • 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.

  • Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

  • The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

  • In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

    Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.
  • There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

    "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.
  • The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

  • apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.

    Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”
  • 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.

  • Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

    ALAN VALENTINE (1962). “1913 America Between Two Worlds”
  • When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

    William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”
  • 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.

    Art   Science   Reality  
  • It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

    Dream   Art   Philosophy  
    Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library
  • At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

    Truth   Freedom   Lying  
  • Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

    Science   Men   Discovery  
    J. G. HOLLAND (1867). “KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM”, p.230
  • In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

    Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.
  • It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.

    Success   Men   Discovery  
  • They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

    Life   Nature   Travel  
    'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5
  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

    "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.
  • Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

    Wisdom   Math   Science  
    "The Organization of Thought" (1917)
  • It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.

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