Quotes About Discovery

It's just exciting to be able to see what someone around the world is eating in Sicily or Tokyo.

I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.

I thought I was cool until I left the country. I went to Tokyo, and I was like, man, why am I wearing these jorts?

I went to Tokyo when I was a child, but there's still so much of the country I'd like to explore.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally, the new immunology was born.

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.

I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

Travel takes a toll on you.

When I feel it, I got it, 'cause, like, on 'Changes,' I didn't never know what that song was, never knew who it was or who did it, but Tom Brenneck asked me to do that song.

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

Housed within a woman, the doctor thought, were rooms of undisclosed shapes and sizes, and a woman may live a life and never open but two or three, and live within them quite happily. But there were those who twisted and turned within the windy stairwells of their selves, opening doors to rooms and peering in upon possible worlds unmatched in the exterior.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

Which just goes to show," said Percie, "that we should never be separated. We're better than blood sisters, because actually I found you, and you found me.

found graphene hiding out in the graphite from an ordinary pencil.

in my small pocket of my own isolated country, I felt like I understood my world and myself, but now, I'm actually embracing not knowing and I'm questioning much of what I thought I did know. I kind of like being confused, wrestling with contradictions, and not having to wrap up issues in a minute before a commercial break.

Slowly, slowly, I accumulate sentences. I have no idea what I'm doing until suddenly it reveals itself, almost done.

The will can achieve some things, but one must exhaust one's will in order to learn which things they are.

Progress takes place in the dark, when you aren't trying.

If you go to Paris, you won't find Paris; you'll find yourself in Paris. Ditto anywhere else. You might as well stay home.