Quotes About Discovery

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

There are areas of the Earth that I would absolutely think no one lived in based on daytime observations. But then at night, lights pop up in those areas.

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Genomics is a new idea. Like the PC, it's not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It's like, 'Hey, we've already got one genome, why do we need more?'

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I've got one jacket that I just happened across which is a kind of unwashed leather - completely anonymous but absolutely special.

Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.

My first occupation was to map the country.

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.