Quotes About Discovery

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?"

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze 'em?

Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim of my own job description. Others don't inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.