Quotes About Exploration

They should have sent a poet.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return. These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be. The

El océano nos llama. Hay una parte de nuestro ser conocedora de que nosotros venimos de allí. Deseamos retornar.

Such stories include Robert Heinlein's The Door into Summer, Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man, Jack Finney's Time and Again, Frank Herbert's Dune and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.

We knew the Moon from our earliest days. It was there when our ancestors descended from the trees into the savannahs, when we learned to walk upright, when we first devised stone tools, when we domesticated fire, when we invented agriculture and built cities and set out to subdue the Earth.

We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path what will take us to the stars - unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879–1955)

Todo lo que hemos visto forma parte de un universo inmenso, complicado y maravilloso.

Cuando dirigimos nuestra vista al espacio vemos reflejadas en él las múltiples variedades de nuestra naturaleza.

Los viajes inaugurales son siempre los más peligrosos.

La búsqueda de configuraciones sin análisis crítico y la ostentación de un rígido escepticismo sin la búsqueda de configuraciones son las antípodas de una ciencia incompleta. La búsqueda efectiva del saber requiere la concurrencia de ambas funciones.

Otkako su ljudska bi?a zaposjela Zemlju, no?no je nebo bilo sudrug i nadahnu?e. Zvijezde su smirivale ?ovjeka. Nekima je nebo otvaralo put prema vjeri. Drugima je svemir pružao poticaj za najneobi?nija maštanja.

Dois homens chegaram a um buraco no céu. Um pediu ao outro ajuda para se erguer até a abertura... Mas era tão bonito no céu que o homem que espiou pela beirada esqueceu tudo, esqueceu o companheiro a quem tinha prometido ajudar a subir e simplesmente saiu correndo para entrar em todo o esplendor celeste. De um poema em prosa esquimó iglulik, do início do século XX, recitado por Inugpasugjuk a Knud Rasmussen, o explorador ártico da Groenlândia

En la ciencia no hay preguntas prohibidas, no hay temas demasiado sensibles o delicados para ser explorados, no hay verdades sagradas.

la ciencia es más que un cuerpo de conocimiento, es una manera de pensar.

All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.

We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.

We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

To read is to voyage through time.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return.

A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.

We are the way for the universe to know itself.

The total number of such worlds are, as I said, something of the order of a trillion, or 10^12, a one followed by twelve zeros, of which Earth represents just one, all in the family of the Sun. And our star, of course, is one of a vast multitude.