Quotes About Discovery

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.

There are some species, one was the Goliath Tigerfish, that took me six years to track down and catch.

The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.

I decided that I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world, specifically a protein engineer.

If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you're going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.

Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.