Quotes About Discovery

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

You never really stop learning. You have to experiment and reinvent life to sustain your interest.

I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

I discovered at age 13 that if a spoon had 'Sterling' on the back, it was worth money. I'd run around a swap meet and find 20 in a day, make 75 to 100 bucks by finding silver spoons.

I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it.

When I went to Sweden, I sort of found out who I was.

Let's just say, I went to Sweden for a reason, to make music.

Well, one of the things I should tell you is that if you look at the very long sweep of history what you see is that the rate of growth has been speeding up, the rate of progress, and that's because there's more and more people who are all engaged in this process of discovery.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you're like, 'I think we need some time to see other people,' and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians.

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.

My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.