Quotes About Discovery

55 Cancri is extraordinarily rich in heavy elements and extraordinarily efficient at making planets - much more so than our sun - and those elements are the very ones you need to make planets that aren't just gas giants.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

We now know that stars which are abundant in heavy metals are five times more likely to harbor orbiting planets than are stars deficient in metals.

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

It took me a long time, not necessarily to come out, but to understand how I was feeling. It wasn't planned for me to come out with 'First Girl' or anything. I just so happened to have met my current girlfriend on the set.

Acting was never planned.

For me, I don't have a grand vision planned or an end goal. I'm just exploring what's given to me at any given moment.

My journey to working on loneliness was certainly not an expected one or planned one.

I had not planned my career.

People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'

I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.

Give yourself a chance. Now, everyone can't play basketball. But find something you're interested in.

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.