Quotes About Discovery

I learned playing cello in 'Cantabile' and Go in 'Reply 1988.' In 'Moonlight Drawn by Clouds,' I learned horse riding and Geomungo. It's fun to learn new things.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

I remember doing 'The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy,' and I'd been reporting that story for a long time; I had a lot of good facts, but I had no story. I didn't know what the story was.

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

I didn't find out about the Paralympics until I was 18 years old. Once I found out what the Paralympics were, I was so excited to know I had a chance to represent my country and wear Team U.S.A. on my back.

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.

I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration.

Is it possible to reproduce, later in life, the impact that books, records, and films have between the ages of fourteen and seventeen? The periods of my adult life that have been most miserable have been those in which I lost fidelity to what I discovered then.

I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them.

I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.'

I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery.

There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'

I'd love to go to Easter Island, Hawaii, Iceland and Antarctica.