#discoveries

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#family

But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, “Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board.” It’s as though we’re sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks—masters of the universe—and suddenly say, “Oops, somebody discovered something!” No. We’re always at the drawing board. If you’re not at the drawing board, you’re not making discoveries. You’re not a scientist; you’re something else. The public, on the other hand, seems to demand conclusive explanations as they leap without hesitation from statements of abject ignorance to statements of absolute certainty. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#drawing-conclusions #ignorance #science #scientists #science

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse. ↗

— Tori Amos

#abuse #age #century #discoveries #especially

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#believe #create #discoveries #doing #extend

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#discoveries #infinitely #knit #made #more

For their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies. ↗

— Rodney Robert Porter

#concerning #discoveries #structure #their

New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate. ↗

— Fred Upton

#altering #change #continues #discoveries #dramatically

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#april #because #could #desire #discoveries

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#been #chair #discoveries #easy #farther

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. ↗

— Charles Eames

#always #cheap #communicating #discoveries #ideas