Quotes About Discovery

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

We should have more invention.

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

I'm investigating where our boundaries lie by sometimes overstepping those boundaries.

My guilty pleasure is watching the Investigation Discovery channel.

Writing is investigation.

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

I've always loved investigations.

Actors are investigators.

We'll be investing in basic science research with the goal of curing disease.

To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?

Life science is an investment for the future.

After the NFLPA game, coaches were coming up to me and saying, 'We didn't even know who you were, we didn't even know your name; we weren't supposed to be even looking at you, but man, we have no choice.' And, like, the NFLPA game, I wasn't even invited until the last minute.

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.