Quotes About Discovery

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

'The X Factor' saved me.

I have a radio show/podcast called 'The Cryptid Factor,' which is about the search for creatures that may or may not exist.

I've always found that there are loads of people out there with real talent will never get discovered. Shows like 'The X Factor' can help that and give people the confidence to do what they want.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Science is facts.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.

I was fairly young when we moved to Santa Fe, but it wasn't long after that I started to figure out who I was, and that entire process took place in this city.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

I've fallen in love with Los Angeles, and I love to explore it myself.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.