We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment – as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom,...

I think that the formation of [DNA’s] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself… For brevity’s sake I shall use the...

A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering...

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.I was...

You can’t be a big dreamer if you don’t where you are going. You can’t know where you are going unless you first know where you are.

You can create opportunity out of importunity.You can create prosperity out of adversity.U can create something out of nothing

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which...

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

There is a close relationship between the “ha-ha” of humor and the “aha!” of discovery

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the...

When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn’t think were interesting and transforms all this...

I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it…but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few...

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.

To find is the thing.

To wander is to be alive.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he...

Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in earlier times, and that the truth of the matter can only be...

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define ‘serendipity’ as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you...

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

because I have found something not only to live on, but something to die for”!

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the advantage of excluding vague questions and useless calculations; besides it is...

With over half the accounting investigation completed without discovery of material impropriety, much of the risk of an accounting fraud would appear to be greatly diminished,

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do

Reflections…passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for quite a different schooling.” To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed...

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries...

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands...

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Sometimes we go along, thinking”Ah, this is it – this is what true peace feels like…” Then, in a moment of grace, something shifts in our hearts, and in awestruck wonder, we whisper, “oh my,...

But I think I’m broken too. I just don’t know it yet.

It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits from knowing the secrets of Nature, whether it is ready to...

The parent is the child’s guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds...

Good” now is better than “Best” never.

Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that — you — are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel’s definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and...

It was youWho opened meLooked into my soulTo study meYou revealed youTo uncover me.