Quotes about Discovery

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.