Quotes About Discovery

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

I'd never been on a plane until I went to the Peach Bowl my freshman year at Iowa.

I wanted to write about Jews in Montana, so I went there by plane and bus, only to discover that there are no Jews in Montana. It didn't deter me.

I wanted to be an air hostess because I thought it was the most glamorous thing - and I'd never been on a plane.

I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.

I've been on more planes than I can count.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.

It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we've found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as deep for as long on a planetary system as rich as Saturn's.

My field is called planetary science.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

There's planets, life in the universe. You don't talk about that in high school - or maybe I skipped class that day.

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.

Theoretically, there are planets with an environment that can support life. As yet there is no evidence that there indeed is life on other planets. It's only a matter of time before we get to know.

I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.