Quotes About Discovery

If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my invention.

It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.

I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.

From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I've had the pleasure of re-discovering the 'jewels' from my repertoire that are so well-liked.

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Challenges are fun. It's no fun being repetitive.

I eagerly await the day when there is a replacement for the meniscus.

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.

There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.