I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.
I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
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