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In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

— C. V. Raman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

— Talcott Parsons

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

— Ahmed Zewail

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

— Avicenna

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

— Auguste Comte

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

— Michael Shermer

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

— Stephen Hawking

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

— Ernst Mach

✗Opposing Perspectives

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

— Marilyn Ferguson