Discovery Quotes - Page 20

• By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.

  Venkatesananda Saraswati

  Self, Understanding, Meaning Of Life

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• To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

  Francois Arago

  Knowledge, Science, Destiny

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• Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

  Lawrence LeShan

  Inspirational, Cancer, Needs

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• Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen.

  Lyman Spitzer

  Stars, Adventure, Science

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 17, No. 5, p. 191, 194, May 1961.

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• Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

  Warren Weaver

  God, Science, Order

  Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

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• 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

  Success, Science, Giving

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• Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord." In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being." Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.

  Paul Davies

  Powerful, Science, Guiding Principles

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• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

  Robert Fulton

  Nice, Science, Ideas

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• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

  Frederick Banting

  Book, Science, Beer

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

  Wanda Landowska

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

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• Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

  Fernando Araujo Perdomo

  Mistake, Serendipity, Next

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

  Susan C. Aldridge

  Teaching, Learning, Reflection

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• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Memories, Lying, Learning

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• This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

  Adolf von Baeyer

  Science, Cells, Yeast

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• In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of his equipment facilities. If greater progress were to be made it would be necessary to construct new and different equipment especially designed to measure the cosmic static.

  Grote Reber

  Progress, Important, Different

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• If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile fixed, and knows the power of the open air in promoting the former of those operations; it is not improbable, that both many things relating to the nature of the humours, and to the ways of sweetening, actuating, and otherwise altering them, may be detected, and the importance of such discoveries may be discerned.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Air, Research

  Robert Boyle (1664). “Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq; ...”, p.37

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• The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

  Friedrich Dessauer

  God, Science, Law

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• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At His command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save.
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  God, Men, Hands

  Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)

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• Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Knowledge, Science, Simple

  "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 159, 1996.

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• Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.

  Robert P. Crease

  Knowledge, Science, Generations

  Robert P. Crease (2010). “The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.

  Earnest Hooton

  Knowledge, Science, Animal

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• The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

  Bengt I. Samuelsson

  Knowledge, Science, Imagination

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• The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

  John N. Bahcall

  Knowledge, Science, Important

  Obituary at CalTech, September 7, 2005.

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• We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of the discovery of the infinitesimal calculus, and in a measure also when in the development of projective geometry obstacles were suddenly removed which, having hemmed progress for a long time, permitted a stream of investigators to pour in upon virgin soil. There is no longer any browsing along the beaten paths; and into the primeval forest only those may venture who are equipped with the sharpest tools.

  Heinrich Burkhardt

  Knowledge, Science, Long

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• Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be turned either to constructive ends or destructive ends. That's not the fault of science.

  Arthur William Galston

  Believe, Science, Benefits

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