Quotes About Discovery

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!!.... is how I climax.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Oh, the places you will go.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.