Quotes About Discovery

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?

If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to be, with someone you realize you don't know.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.