It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. That is impossible. Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
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