Quotes About Pioneering

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there [space]. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.

In 1948, at age seventy-six, Orville Wright died after two heart attacks.

It's quite interesting to note that Townes's colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university's physics department, told Townes his maser idea would never work and urged him to abandon the project.

Douglas Preston

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

The easy way to get into a person's mind is to be first.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

I didn't take that many pictures of The Beatles, but I did photograph them before anybody else knew about them, and that makes me proud. I saw something in them.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.

I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

I think every test pilot's dream is to be on the start of something that's brand new.

We are pioneers of creating a new genre of metal.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

Motown wasn't just pioneering a sound but a cultural dynamic.

The bravery and pioneering of early Hollywood was absolutely incredible.

I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.