Quotes About Discovery

Soccer. I was a late convert. I didn't get into it until I lived in Amsterdam for a while in my 20s, and now I'm a zealot. It's the best.

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I'm not.

I was a soccer player. Basketball wasn't my thing.

I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV and fell in love with football instantly, but I'm from Colorado and Fox Soccer Channel was pretty expensive.

It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

I was doing a little modeling on the side. Then 'ANTM' found me on social media, and it pretty much flipped my life around, all for the better.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I took a sociology class, and I got an A in it. Then I found out you could get an emphasis in criminal justice. I wanted to be an administrator.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Maybe I'm in the wrong sport. I should go to Australia and play fast-pitch softball.

Can watching video lessons or using interactive software make people smart? No. But I would argue that it can do something even better: create a context in which people can give free rein to their curiosity and natural love of learning so that they realize they're already smart.

My earliest memory is feeling soil between my fingers when I was around three years old.

We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.

You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.

We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.

I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life.

I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked.