Howard Carter Quotes

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

There is so much left of it to explore.

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

There is a lot of the world that is undiscovered.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

People dig exploration.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.