Quotes About Discovery

I conned the musty stock. At the back of the shop . . . . glimmered the façade of an enormous dolls' house. I wanted it at once.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.

he finds himself stuck beside a road that only others will travel.

Innovation is an unruly thing. There will be some ideas that don't get caught in your cup. But that's not what the game is about. The game is what you catch, not what you spill.

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Fingerprints of the Gods

People who travel only in their arm-chairs acquire notions of foreign places which reality usually upsets at the first glance.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.