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There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
-Enrico Fermi, physicist
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
-Jules Henri Poincaré, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher of science
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
-Albert Szent-Gyorgi, biochemist
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.
-William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, physicist
Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.
-Arthur D. Little, chemist
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
-William Lawrence Bragg, physicist
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
-William Henry, chemist
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not eureka but that's funny.
-Isaac Asimov, biochemist
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
-Sir Isaac Newton, physicist
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
-Celia Green, researcher
I never see what has been done, I only see what remains to be done.
-Marie Curie, physicist & chemist