Quotes About Discovery

When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.

Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

I like Goodwill and the thrift stores. I don't like going into a store and picking from a bunch of cute stuff that's already been found. One of the best parts is finding it myself.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.

You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.

I started studying acting to become a better model. But, in the course of doing so, I found myself feeling the same thrill and enthusiasm that I felt the first time I came to walk on the runway.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

It's a blessing in a scientific career - the almost daily thrill of scientific discovery.

I love the thrill of putting on a record and feeling like you got the wrong one from the factory.

There is always that extra bit of thrill when you try something new, you get into it thinking you have nothing to lose, at the most you will fail.

I am thrilled to see my genome.