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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

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

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.