Quotes About Discovery

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.

I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man.

In L.A., it's not on the surface. Everything is in the cracks. The restaurant out front will look like this old, boring place, and you'll go inside, and it's this lush, beautifully designed restaurant.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

The stream at the end of your street can be a place where you make contact with this whole other amazing world hidden right there beneath the surface. Fishing can be the passport to that world.

I use the Internet a lot - it's a big hobby of mine, just surfing the Internet.

Africa is one of my favorite places because there are so many things to do - either surfing or going to see the animals. You can drive two hours or six hours up the coast - or just 15 minutes up the road - and it's probably something you haven't seen before.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.