Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English philosopher and mathematician.

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny…” ~Isaac Asimov

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. ~Wernher Von Braun

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions. ~Claude Lévi-Strauss

I tried to choose those that involved research(investigation) of some sort. Hopefully one fits!

~~ Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus),

Meditations (ch. II)

The only hope of science is genuine induction.

~~ Francis Bacon

Art and science have their meeting-point in method.

~~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

~~ Albert Einstein

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

~~ Galilei Galileo

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

~~ George Henry Lewes

Good luck with your paper!

“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. Science is simply common sense at its best. That is, rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.” Thomas Huxley

and

“…one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self evident.” Arthur Koestler

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination (Bertrand Russell)

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

by Bertolt Brecht

I hope that’s what you are looking for.

“Nothing in this world is to be feared… only understood.” — Marie Curie

E=MC sqared

The scientific formula for the speed of light:

To qualify as a science:

It Must Be Seen-Measured & Quantified:

BringBaka.

NYC

It’s the original concept for molecular computing, quantum computing and nanotechnology.