Francis Bacon Quotes

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science is not inherently good.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

One can not impede scientific progress.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

As for the "triumphs of science," let us honour, with astonishment and awe, the genius of those who invented them; but let us remember that the things themselves are as a gun or a sword, with which we can kill our enemy, but with which also our enemy can kill us.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing, the discovery of America, and the introduction of patent laws.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.

I am very pro-science.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.