Quotes About Discovery

Once a discovery has been published, there is no way of un-publishing it.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.

We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

I'm just getting to know the local pubs. I do enjoy going out in east London.

I was only a young whippersnapper at that point. I was in pubs playing Barry Manilow songs. I didn't know what to expect.

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.

Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it.

I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had.

The 'River Monsters' episodes acted a bit like a whodunit - there was a crime scene, maybe someone had been pulled under, and we had to find out what happened.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn't put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn't even know.

When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you didn't even know it was jazz.

I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.

Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.