Quotes About Discovery

I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.

In my early twenties, the whole experience of going on tour was like losing myself in this slightly wild environment.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

NASA's charter is to give Americans the means to get into the wild, black yonder, beyond even the grasp of the federal government that funded it.

I want to capture and express that passion I see in life all around me to go wild, to push into anywhere we can, and make of those places new domains for life.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.

Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

The spirituality of the dance, that's something that's evolved for me in the past ten years or so. I'm still trying to figure out where that's taking me.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as possible, looking and listening, having conversations with bridges and streets and riverbanks, conversations I tend not to be aware of until a little later, when I find myself returning to those places to say hello again, even if only in memory.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

There's a tendency for young musicians - I certainly was guilty of this - of wanting to know what they sound like, before making their first record, before releasing things. But I think that's the wrong order of operations. You only find out what you sound like, when you have five records under your belt.

The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

My bucket list tends to relate to travel or eating.

I think one of the things about reinforcement learning is that it tends to require exploration. So using it in the context of physical systems is somewhat hard.

I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.