Quotes About Discovery

I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

I don't really outline. I just kind of know where I'm going in my head, so I'll write and discover it for myself. Or I'll just write an entire episode and throw it out because I land on an idea and realize that's where I should jump off from.

I loved Albuquerque! And we were there during monsoon season, which I didn't know was a thing outside of, like, the Far East.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

My background is getting into the kinds of places where outsiders don't normally go, with enough energy left to put a line in the water.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

I work like a baker. I mix things, put them in the oven and see if I like what comes out.

All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.

I think going overseas and experiencing a whole new culture is something you can't learn anywhere else.

I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

The opposite approach would be to encourage people to make some errors. You do this by asking your folks on occasion what dead-end roads they've been down

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream. Maybe only then could a man like Ingersoll make sense.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.