Quotes About Exploration

People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.

Before I left for American University, my mother told me to sign up for everything I could: to take advantage of everything from on-campus lectures to sports and social events to the amazing D.C. culture.

Just because you're in college, or a university student, that does not mean you're the only thing you are.

I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.