Quotes about Discovery
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
— Pope John Paul II
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
— Francis Collins
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
— Albert Einstein
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
— Stephen Hawking
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
— Mark Twain
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
— Carl Sagan
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
— Calvin Coolidge
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.
— Carl Sagan
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
— Charles Kettering
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
Freedom, the first-born of science.
— Thomas Jefferson