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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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.
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
The great discoveries are usually obvious.