Quotes About Discovery

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

Early youth is a baffling time

When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Great," Simon said. "Maybe I'll even make it back before my mother notices I'm gone. What's the time difference between here and Manhattan?" "You have a mother?" Aline looked amazed.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.