Quotes About Discovery

I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Science is the future of mankind.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.

There was the Door to which I found no key There was the Veil through which I might not see.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.

The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.