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Quotes About Discovery

Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.
~ Josh Holloway
When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.
~ Ronald D. Moore
I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I could find those alien creatures right on Earth. And what I do is I study insects.
~ Michael Dickinson
I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I started watching 'Star Trek' as a kid.
~ Henry Ian Cusick
'Star Trek' posited a better future.
~ Robert Picardo
'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
Growing up, I felt there was nothing my dad couldn't do, but didn't get the chance to do when we moved. I think he latched on to 'Trek' because of the sense of exploration and discovery, and hope. I think that's what he connected to.
~ Justin Lin
I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.
~ Kip Thorne
'Star Trek' was inspiring to me.
~ Leroy Chiao
They get you to do a lot of stuff on 'Star Trek' by saying it's the first time this is ever gonna happen on 'Star Trek.'
~ Mary Wiseman
Star Trek' is not just about literal exploration, but also the exploration of ourselves.
~ Justin Lin
I hadn't watched 'Star Trek' when I was a kid.
~ John de Lancie
I didn't really watch a lot of Star Trek' as a child. I'm kicking myself now that I haven't, but once I got the show, I started watching and became a huge fan.
~ Isa Briones
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
~ Jacky Ickx
The biggest honor is to be an astronaut. It's such a tremendous privilege to be able to represent humankind in our quest to explore space.
~ John M. Grunsfeld
But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
~ Donald Johanson
Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots.
~ Julian Fellowes
Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting.
~ Matt Walsh
There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.
~ Lene Hau
Time Team' is by definition very static. Once you're in that field and you've dug your trenches, that's it.
~ Tony Robinson
They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.
~ Daniel Petrie
If you want your kids to have fun learning about food, you need to let them explore it in their own way. Let them figure out for themselves what textures and flavors go well together. Who knows, maybe they'll invent the next French-fry-dipped-in-a-Frosty trend.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
I went to Borussia Dortmund on trial with a bag and some clothes, not knowing what my next move was going to be.
~ Paul Lambert