Uncovering the Unknown Quotes

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

No one will ever know the complete truth.

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

The deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them..

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

'Dating In The Dark' is a unique show that is going to bring something very new to the table for the audiences. The format will make people look beyond the general dating norms of our society: who knows, maybe even reinvent them.

For me, just getting to experience something new all the time is what's most exciting for me.

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I like things that take you by the hand and say, 'You think you know about this - you think you understand it - but there's so much that you don't.'

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.