Quotes About Exploration

If the stars must someday die, at least some could yet be built.

Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries.

We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done?

We are looking for extraterrestrial civilization that disposes of enough energy of a sufficiently sophisticated kind to be detectable over interstellar distances

The Jump remained, and would probably remain forever, the only practical method of travelling between the stars.

Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres.

Cooper del Setenta y ocho, perdido en el Veinte, llama a la Eternidad...

Forse non esiste una fine nella scienza e ciò è anche un bene perché un universo senza misteri sarebbe insopportabilmente noioso. (da Il libro di biologia )

NEMESIS THE GODS THEMSELVES FANTASTIC VOYAGE I, ASIMOV

Ha séta?rhajón volnánk, talán el is lehetne intézni. De mi a nap iránt fogunk leereszkedni. Gondolom, nem akarsz egyszerre megvakulni, megsülni és sugárfertÅ'zést kapni, nem igaz?

With the blind jumps we took through hyperspace, it's lucky we didn't land up in a sun's belly.

You can't get lost in space

a Galaxis a vesztébe rohan!

Ellos se extenderán por la Galaxia a un ritmo que irá en aumento, sin la Tierra para mirar con nostalgia, sin la Tierra en forma de un dios, y establecerán un Imperio Galáctico. Era preciso que lo hiciéramos posible. Hizo una pausa, y su voz se debilitó al decir: «Robots e Imperio».

Dr. Fastolfe said, with obvious surprise, "Are you satisfied with life on Earth?" "We get along.

În tinereÈ›e p?r?sise Europa, plecând din Amsterdam; se schimbase ceva prin asta, nu r?m?sese acelaÈ™i om? ?i dac? mai târziu oamenii p?r?siser? un P?mânt bolnav, îndreptându-se spre alte lumi de pe firmament, nu r?m?seser? tot oameni? Nu era a sa toat? Galaxia? Nu erau cu toÈ›ii urmaÈ™ii lui È™i-ai fraÈ›ilor s?i?

Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Therefore, for the sake of all of us, let's abandon our useless, endless, suicidal bickering and unite behind the real task that awaits us—to survive—to learn—to expand—to enter into a new level of knowledge. Let us strive to inherit the Universe that is waiting for us; doing so alone, if we must, or in company with others—if they are there.

Wie ich höre, zeigt auch der Himmel eine Leidenschaft für das Neue. Ein Stern wird müde, ein Stern zu sein, und er explodiert und wird eine Nova.

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance.

The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and translucent gilt-edged pages and delicate typography.

La vida se hace caminando sin mapa y no hay forma de volver atrás.