Quotes About Discovery

You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.

I was David Bowie-thin up to about 28, and then I discovered food.

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was and what I wanted.

I love the Beatles. Now I know I'm a good few decades late on this one, but I've always been behind the curve.

I actually surprised myself because I discovered that I am a pretty decent cook.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

When I was playing football it was 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So I said to myself when I stopped that I wanted to dedicate myself to things I'd never done before. I even had a list.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make sure all children have the opportunity to find their gift.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

I'm finding my self worth. At 21, this is the very beginning, even though I feel so old. This is the time you figure out who you are, and don't let anyone define you.

Aliens are definitely real.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.

I feel like before music, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I didn't know where I was going to end up. I was scared to even have people depending on me.