scientific discoveries
Knowledge from experiments
Scientific discoveries are findings that reveal new knowledge about the natural world through observation, experimentation, or reasoning.
The phrase emphasizes breakthrough moments rather than gradual accumulation: The scientific discoveries of the 20th century transformed medicine.
A discovery implies something was there to be found—gravity existed before Newton, DNA before Watson and Crick.
- big bangLoud explosive noise
- atomic theoryModel of matter's building blocks
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- genetic engineeringDeliberate DNA modification
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
antibiotics · plate tectonics · penicillin · microscopy · photosynthesis · relativity · eureka · aha moment · spectroscopy · quantum mechanics · paradigm · trial and error · heliocentrism · serendipity · double helix · natural selection · Copernicus · vaccines
scientific discoveriesfolklore
Inherited cultural narratives
superstition · old wives' tales · religious dogma · intuition · pseudoscience
scientific discoverieshoaxes
Intentional public deceptions
misinformation · disinformation · junk science · quackery · false claims