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Quotes About Discovery

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.
~ Robert Robinson
Pennsylvania has some of the best science in the world.
~ Katie McGinty
I keep getting amazing things to bring to life. There's always something to discover with 'Dr. Bailey,' something that brings her home to the audience, something that makes people say, 'I know that woman. I work with that woman.' It's incredibly flattering and I'm still finding new things with her all the time.
~ Chandra Wilson
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
~ Meryl Streep
There's a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and... they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So I went down there and got it, and I went back home. I didn't come out of my room for about three days. I just played it nonstop... 'Sgt. Pepper's' was the best thing I'd ever heard in my life.
~ Peter Frampton
One thing that was pretty eye-opening to me was that red pepper came from the New World in the 15th or 16th century. So these things that we think of as inherently Korean actually have an even longer history than that.
~ Michelle Zauner
I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
~ Gautam Singhania
With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.
~ Doug Liman
We still don't know what about 96 per cent of the universe is made of. It is dark matter and dark energy, but we have no idea what it is.
~ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.
~ Lois Lowry
I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.
~ Henry B. Eyring
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.
~ Taj Mahal
I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
~ Fernando Botero
That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.
~ Mario Lopez
You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.
~ Craig Venter
There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
~ Wendy Kopp
When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.
~ Evelyn Glennie
The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.
~ Jason Reynolds
In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.
~ Emily Atack
Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.
~ Albert Claude
To be perfectly honest, I have not watched 'Discovery,' I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I thought it was another movie coming out.
~ Penny Johnson Jerald
When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
~ Vanessa Morgan