Quotes About Discovery

I had no idea who Peter was. We had a fun night, met for coffee the next day and started emailing when he went back to England. I'd never heard of Peter or Zara Phillips.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

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 feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

When I was little, I went through a lot of phases, like any girl.

Like a lot of us, I went through some phases on the way to finding what I felt comfortable in as myself.

I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but I've fallen in love with London.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take it seriously.

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'