Quotes About Discovery

We kind of know there's no more frontiers in the physical world. So the frontiers move from where we haven't been yet to where we've been and abandoned.

I discovered my physicality, I discovered running, and endorphins, and the sort of amazing way that people are meant to move. And that's what's great about 'Hanna,' because she moves. She's human and she embodies all of that.

I was never a sporty kid. Then I discovered my physicality and running and endorphins.

In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.

I need physics more than friends.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.

I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human.

What is important about graphene is the new physics it has delivered.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

Space, the whole universe - I know no better place to find new physics.

Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination. They think a Big Bang started the universe, but they don't really know.

I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics Illustrated, which had a lot of pseudo-science in it: It wasn't until I got to college that I began to appreciate what physics is all about, and that was really an accident also.