Quotes About Discovery

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with amazing artists. I'm very blessed.

You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

The soul doesn't distinguish between good and bad as much as between what is nutritious and what isn't. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

How do I work? I grope.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

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

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.