Quotes about Discovery

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.

Most people live — whether physically, intellectually or morally — in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon which we do not dream

If God so precisely and carefully and lovingly and amazingly constructed a mind-boggling habitat for His creatures, then it would be natural for Him to want them to explore it, to measure it, to investigate it, to appreciate it, to be inspired by it--and ultimately, and most importantly, to find Him through it.

The propaganda of the Copernican Principle has been that the long march of science has shown how common and ordinary our situation is. But the trend is in the opposite direction. The more you pile on the threats we're discovering in most places in the universe, and you contrast that with the many ways we're in a cocoon of safety, the more our situation appears special.

Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective —that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.