Quotes About Discovery

Every Sparks album is a new album when it's the first one you're hearing.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

It's possible of course, especially when you're young, to read a book and take it to your heart. And you don't need to speak to anybody about it - it's so important to you: You have found it.

I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logically makes sense, and I'm going to speak on it every time.

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until I really know the voice of that character. It's almost as if the character is speaking to me.

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.

While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.

It's always special to come to a new club.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist.

It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.