Quotes About Discovery

Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' " People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on

Once she calmed down, she told Jobs that he had a full sister, Mona Simpson, who was then an aspiring novelist

market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out

He also flowered intellectually during his last two years in high school and found himself at the intersection, as he had begun to see it, of those who were geekily immersed

The best way to approach his life is the way he approached the world: filled with a sense of curiosity and an appreciation for its infinite wonders.

Retain a childlike sense of wonder. At a certain point in life, most of us quit puzzling over everyday phenomena. We might savor the beauty of a blue sky, but we no longer bother to wonder why it is that color. Leonardo did. So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, "You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder years, or to let our children do so.

The journey is the reward

A hero of the piece was John Draper, a hacker known as Captain Crunch because he had discovered that the sound emitted by the toy whistle that came with the breakfast cereal was the same 2600 Hertz tone used by the phone network's call-routing switches.

I started by making pilgrimages to see the originals in Milan, Florence, Paris, Seattle, Madrid, London, and Windsor Castle. That followed Leonardo's injunction to begin any investigation by going to the source: "He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

Some of the most important technologies of our era, such as the fracking techniques developed over the past six decades for extracting natural gas, came about because of countless small innovations as well as a few breakthrough leaps.

Oddest of all, there is this entry: "Go every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men."10 We can imagine Leonardo wanting to do

Being relentlessly and randomly curious about everything around us is something that each of us can push ourselves to do, every waking hour, just as he did.

Bueno, Steve, me parece que hay más de una forma de verlo. Yo diría más bien que es como si ambos tuviésemos un vecino rico llamado Xerox y, cuando yo me colé en su casa para robar el televisor, descubrí que ya te lo habías llevado tú.

But by 1912, Einstein had come to appreciate that math could be a tool for discovering—and not merely describing—nature's laws. Math was nature's playbook. "The central idea of general relativity is that gravity arises from the curvature of spacetime," says physicist James Hartle. "Gravity is geometry.

She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries.

His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.

She had succeeded where the other technician had failed. "It was an incredible moment, and it made me think I could do science.

Mojica was driving home from his lab one evening when he came up with the name CRISPR, for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

It is a glorious feeling to discover the unity of a set of phenomena that seem at first to be completely separate

De hecho, fue precisamente por descubrir la ley del efecto fotoeléctrico por lo que se concedería a Einstein su único premio Nobel.