Quotes About Discovery

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What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

Finding your feet in a new country provides an enormous boost to your confidence and independence.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.

Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative - satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have to have otherwise.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

We all go through phases; in one such phase, I was interested to know about the psychic phenomenon.

Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

Since puberty, I've always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn't anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.

I learned everything along the way. I only performed five times before I was in the public eye.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.