Quotes About Discovery

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

A new character is like bringing a new human being into your life.

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked.

One of the coolest things to me about living in space was it really caused me to think about how the human body and mind can adapt to completely different environments.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.

I learnt about the universe. I learnt about human rights and human dignity - this was so new to me.

I want to be a paleontologist, whether it's amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian.

It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

It's rare that you discover something by accident that resonates with your sense of humour.

People will be surprised to learn that I've got a sense of humour.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an "idea" already formed. It is the poem or novel or story that quite precisely tells him what he didn't know he knew: he knows, that is, only in terms of his writing. This is, of course, simply another way of saying that literary composition is not the placing of a held idea into a waiting form.

Many young people strangely boast of being motivated; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines. The coils of a serpent are even more complex that the burrows of a molehill.

There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

To write is to struggle and resist; to write is to become; to write is to draw a map: 'I am a cartographer'.

Until that moment she had not really noticed him. Now she felt as though she'd stubbed her toe on a rock, and looked down to find that it was part of a buried city.