There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.