Quotes About Discovery

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.

I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better - and when that's closely related to how the brain works.

The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.

I ended up going to America for an acting workshop, and everything sort of kicked off from there.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

I shall create a new world for myself.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.