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“Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.”

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Author:Charlie Campbell

“The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.”

Wells Stories Half Sea Century Research Discovery Accounts Intense Fascinating Manuscripts Half A Century

Author:Geza Vermes

“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.”

Missing Activity Standards Research Discovery Tradition Accounts Impression Usual Novelty Journalistic Flashy Newsworthy

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.”

Source: The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists

“In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.”

Men May Play Science Certain Knowledge Pure Ambition Discovery Accounts Curiosity Useless Ambitious Quests Sooner Or Later Physiology Misplaced

Book:Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart

Source: Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart

“Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.”

Science Identity Diversity Discovery Accounts Arise

Book:The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

“But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.”

Should Science Process Principles Intellectual Discovery Machines Accounts Following Intellect Astronomy Exploration Astrology Regularity Kepler

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.”

Men Made Matter Science Interesting Knowledge Imagine Goes On Discovery Consequence Accounts No Matter What Curiosity Optimistic Enthusiasm Pessimistic

Author:Linus Pauling

“The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.”

Knows World Real Problem Would Be Science Values Pleasure Knowledge Solutions Discovery Accounts Real Value

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

“The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.”

Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches

“Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.”

Source: Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics

“In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.”

“Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.”

“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”

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

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Book:Science and Imagination: Selected Papers

Source: Science and Imagination: Selected Papers

“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.”

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Author:Arthur William Galston

“There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was "style" and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.”

“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.”