Quotes About Discovery

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

One of the things you dont always realize when youre younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.