Quotes About Discovery

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

I made a quote-unquote 'album' for my senior project of high school. As soon as I finished making it I realized it wasn't the kind of music I wanted to make.

In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

I was kind of lost for several years.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

I'm not good at eyeliner or doing a 'shadow' eye... I don't even know what it is actually called!

A child can escape the shadows.

I go to shady places all the time.

I cut school to read Shakespeare and to learn about that because, for the first time, I felt like I really discovered a passion - the passion of my life.

I came out of my shell in college.

I was someone who used to live a sheltered life.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

I believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.

Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

I don't shop as much as I find.

If you're Ronan Keating, who was working in a shoe shop when I discovered him, but end of thinking you're George Michael, then you need to be stopped.