Quotes About Discovery

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the love of science. That's the reward, really.

When I went to Burnley I'd only been a pro for 14 months. I wasn't even entirely sure where it was! I always lived at home with my mum and dad and it's a long way from Bournemouth.

Growing up, my family wasn't really into sports, so we didn't really watch sports, and then one day I stumbled across the TV: pro wrestling.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

I've been listening to this group called the Veils, which I kind of discovered late. I've been really obsessed with this album that they have called 'Nux Vomica,' and I just think it's a brilliantly produced and written rock record.

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.