Quotes About Discovery

I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.

In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.

I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.'

I found out about Logan Paul in the traditional news.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

I meet people to like them, but some are onions to peel and others just blow up like a bomb!

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

In film and theater, you know the story and the journey from beginning to end, but with TV, you can keep peeling away layers and exploring a new world each week.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your peers deride. It isn't at all happy trying to find the right career.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.