Quotes About Discovery

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment.

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

Yes the moustache appeared for the first time about 10 years ago and it was grown as a joke of course but I discovered I quite liked it. I preferred it and my wife prefers it. I got married in it and she wont come near me when Im clean shaven.

I hadn't planned to have kids, I didn't even know I was pregnant until four months in.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

The first time I went into space was just so much more than you could imagine or prepare yourself for.

When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.

You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.

My mom gave me 'Anne of Green Gables' as a present so that was my first introduction to Anne, little did I know.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.