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“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

“Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.”

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Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.”

“I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...”

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Author:Gertrude B. Elion

“If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.”

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Author:Francis Crick

“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”

“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.”

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Book:The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

Source: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

“A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.”

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Author:Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

“I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.”

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.”

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Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it’s not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people—theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.”

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Book:Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

“As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.”

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Author:Judy Biggert

“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.”

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Author:Ernest Rutherford

“In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.”

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Author:Anthony Eden

“If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.”

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Author:Bernard Haisch

“Scientific discovery may not be better than sex, but the satisfaction lasts longer.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.”

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Author:David Suzuki

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

Source: Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein

“Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.”

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Book:Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

“It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.”

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Author:David Lilienthal

“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.”

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Author:Enrico Fermi

“It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.”

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Author:Paul Davies

“The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.”

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Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

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