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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.