“Every discovery takes place in more than a scientific context.”

— Charles J. Pedersen

in his Nobel lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1987/pedersen-lecture.html, December 8, 1987.

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American organic chemist 1904–1989

Robert J. Birgeneau (1942) Canadian physicist

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Brian Swimme (1950) American cosmologist

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“Human game players together with AI agents can create more powerful citizen scientists, resulting in more scientific discoveries.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

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“Is the Airship Possible? That depends, first of all, on whether we are to make the requisite scientific discoveries… the construction of an aerial vehicle … which could carry even a single man from place-to-place at pleasure requires the discovery of some new metal or some new force.”

Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) American astronomer

[Newcomb, Simon, Is the Airship Coming?, McClure's magazine, September 1901, 17, 5, 432–435, S. S. McClure, Limited, http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/library/Magazines/Airship_Coming.html]

“Hindu mythology is virtually a large scale projection into the psychological realm of microscopic scientific discoveries." "The Wu Li Masters know that physicists are doing more than discovering the endless diversity of nature.'”

Gary Zukav book The Dancing Wu Li Masters

They are dancing with Kali, the Divine Mother of Hindu mythology."
The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979)
Source: Zukav, Gary The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics Bantam (September 1, 1984)ASIN 0553249142 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Tribute_to_Hinduism.html?id=G3AMAQAAMAAJ

“A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.”

Lev Landau (1908–1968) Soviet physicist

reported by Lance Dixon http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10/03/guest-post-lance-dixon-on-calculating-amplitudes/

“I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.”

Marguerite Yourcenar book Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) French lawyer, politician and writer

Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

“One scientific discovery is a gift from the accumulated work of hundreds of researchers. Collaboration is crucial because viruses are smarter than researchers.”

Michael Lai (1942) Taiwanese virologist (born 1942)

Michael Lai (2017) cited in " Persistence pays for Taiwan virologist who helped stop SARS https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Persistence-pays-for-Taiwan-virologist-who-helped-stop-SARS2" on Nikkei Asian Review, 1 May 2017.

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

Diane Setterfield (1964) English novelist

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