Quotes About Discovery

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.

Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

I want to be something that the listeners might not know that they needed but that I fill a lane and that they enjoy it for a while.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.