It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. Frederick Sanger
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
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 Lemaître
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.
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold. Archimedes
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea of understanding. Hans Bethe
No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea of understanding.
If you know you're right, you don't care. You know that sooner or later, it will come out in the wash. When asked about the long delay in recognition for her discovery. Barbara McClintock
If you know you're right, you don't care. You know that sooner or later, it will come out in the wash. When asked about the long delay in recognition for her discovery.
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. Enrico Fermi
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. Dorothy Hodgkin
I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important.
After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had learned to understand the language of spectra. Arnold Sommerfeld
After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had learned to understand the language of spectra.
An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery. Enrico Fermi
An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
The discovery of variable stars, at this Observatory and elsewhere, has progressed so rapidly during the last five years, that the difficulty of keeping pace in observing and discussing them has become very great. Henrietta Swan Leavitt
The discovery of variable stars, at this Observatory and elsewhere, has progressed so rapidly during the last five years, that the difficulty of keeping pace in observing and discussing them has become very great.
There is no better high than discovery. E. O. Wilson
There is no better high than discovery.
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. George Gaylord Simpson
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
