George Emil Palade Quotes

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Unprecedented opportunities for new scientific experience ...

Eureka [I have found it]

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

When I contemplate the immense advances in sciences and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches

'Spring Awakening' was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way - that is probably the thing I miss the most.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.