Quotes About Discovery

Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

So I sat down in my student room and thought, when did I have a lot of fun? I realised it was acting. I was 22. Then I slowly started to make small steps.

I was 5 years old when I first broke into my mother's records and played Nat King Cole, and sat alongside the stereo and listened to Nat's music.

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.

Throughout its history, the church has discovered that when it goes to the Scripture in openness and trust, it finds itself uniquely addressed there by God and its identity as the people of God shaped by that encounter.

Like a young couple courting, our love had to be nurtured and strengthened by frequent presence before we could begin to discover that love is deeper than presence, and can be

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

I would call that field of play--the place in which humans test their natural limits and often break them--science.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

We have conceived a new idea, Inglish. We will send the ito

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

God is available through many sources besides the religious quest. I don't mean to imply that psychology replaces the work of religion, but it seems to me that it greatly supports religion and brings a certain clarity to areas of the human condition, especially the discovery of the unconscious.

Saccharin was discovered in 1879 when a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University found his bread extra sweet one night and figured that something from the lab must have followed him home. Incredibly, he set about to tasting nearly everything in his lab—and lived to find o-benzoic sulfimide—saccharin by any other name.

Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.