Vera Rubin Quotes

I've always liked discovering things.

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

I do not seek. I find.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

People dig exploration.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

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

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

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

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 always good to find things that you haven't found before.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

Audiences like making discoveries.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.