Quotes About Discovery

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

I would never have found it if not for psychedelics. This strikes me as one of the great gifts of the experience they afford: the expansion of one's repertoire of conscious states.

Guidelines for Voyagers and Guides."* The guidelines represent a

The clue arrived a year later, in the form of an article in a scientific journal describing the behavior of rats given a newly discovered compound called LSD. Hubbard tracked down the researcher, obtained some LSD, and had a literally life-changing experience. He witnessed the beginning of life on earth as well as his own conception.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.

Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an author's existence and find out that we ought to have been reading him or her all along.

We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989.

Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn.

I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.

At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.

Singapore has everything under one roof. There is something for everyone, right from my kids to my husband.

There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.

For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.