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Quotes About Discovery

Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for the discovery of vitamin C, once offered the opinion that "life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.
~ Sean Carroll
Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.
~ Sean Carroll
Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand–born experimental physicist who was as responsible as anyone for discovering the structure of the atom, once remarked that "all of science is either physics or stamp collecting.
~ Sean Carroll
Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.
~ Emma Donoghue
If you go to a really great shop that stocks really great stuff and it doesn't makes it feel like a super secret club there's tons of stuff to find all way time.
~ Gerard Way
Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch.
~ Giles Blunt
I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
~ Jack Kerouac
Everybody has to learn for the first time.
~ Joshua Lederberg
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
~ M. Scott Peck
Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man keeps inventing things all the time.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.
~ Monica Dickens
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
~ Phylicia Rashad
One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'
~ Q-Tip
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
~ Richard Dawkins
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
~ Ziggy Marley
For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
~ Renee Fleming
It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
~ Tanya Tucker
I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
~ Max Muller
After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
~ Ai Weiwei
I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.
~ Alejandro Zambra
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
~ Alexander Gould
I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before.
~ Alicia Keys