Quotes About Discovery

But here the stink was over-powering. It was as if you walked through it, around in it. It was everywhere and inescapable. I did not find out right away what the smell really was.

Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings

The beauty lies in the mind. If the world is beautiful and the laws of the universe sublime...Must there not be somewhere something beautiful that still remains behind, lingering, waiting to be found?

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.

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Whatever you are seeking you shall find. Patience and understanding, that's your key.

She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates—you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And

Her hand shook as she raised the loincloth and she gave a little gasp at what she saw beneath. Even only half hard, he was big. Way bigger than anyone else in her limited experience—especially Donald whose equipment reminded her of a shy, skinny worm afraid to come out of its hole.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something.

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

We're always looking for ground where we can experiment, where we can do something that's relevant but that hasn't been done before. Can it be in recorded music? Can it be in the field of a tour? These can take any kind of forms.

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.

From the beginning, religious faith animated the American quest to explore the heavens.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

I relish going to places such as Stamford Bridge.

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.