Quotes About Discovery

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

An experience opens many windows," an Anglo-Saxon writer once said.

Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.

You are so much more than what you or others can see or touch. You are so much more than what you've known or done. You are so much more than what others think or even how your perceptions frame your self-image.

And how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are? I

I don't know who I am," I say. "No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who've never been kidnapped.

People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.

Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

I have a lab filled with millions of dollars' worth of equipment, and I can tell you none of it works as well as a good dog's nose. I've witnessed canines hitting on hundred-year-old remains. What they even smell, none of us can tell you. At that point, there's no organic matter left; the bone is little more than a dried sponge. But the dogs always know.

I was so sure Livia was the missing link. Knowing about her involvement now, you'd load up these videos, we'd spy her hat, her face, something and kapow! All the pieces of the puzzle would fall into place.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.