Quotes About Discovery

I asked what he had learned from the life. "Sometimes you have to go with the unknown.

There are many other species, and humans don't understand that. But we like the humans. They are a part of us, and they discover that when they leave their body. If they knew this they would behave differently. They're very lovely. They mean well, and they all have this love in their heart, and we just want them to love from their heart. And if they love from their heart, they won't create these things that occur.

And then you try to remember who you are, but sometimes it's not so easy to remember.

They're calling the children the ones learning... the humans... the learning ones.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

Hold on to your hats, Korea is a land of surprises

To probe our past beyond afarensis was to fall into a wormhole— and emerge on the other side 9 million years earlier, in the Miocene epoch.

Should further discoveries bear this out, the robust australopithecines will stand as a rare example of parallel evolution, in which members of two descendant lineages of A. afarensis independently evolved similar adaptations, presumably in response to environmental change.

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

because I want to discover where, precisely, it may be wrong and, if possible, to repair the defect.

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

As pointed out by David Jewitt, the name "Kuiper belt" then follows Stigler's law, which states, "no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.