Quotes About Discovery

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

Mother lode of learning.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent