A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

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

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.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift nothing is possible.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.