Quotes About Discovery

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.

There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.

Cassini was so profoundly, scientifically successful. It's amazing to me, even, what we were able to do right up until the end.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

I'm following my interests, and there's something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

I used to watch a programme about Route 66 in America, and it looked so fun.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

One can not impede scientific progress.

I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

A new project can offer you a new challenge.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.