Quotes About Discovery

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

A true initiation never ends.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

My way of discovering of what I like was to create a restaurant list and eat my way through it, and I call it my 'inner fat girl bucket list.'

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

The economy is this huge innovation discovery machine. What the government can do usefully is to focus some of that effort where things turn out better for everyone.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

Innovation happens everywhere.

The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.

To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.

I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.

I think everyone has music inside them, and my hope is that I can help them find it.