Quotes About Journey

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting - an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.