Quotes About Exploration

the Aleph-Null campaign.

I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety. But then you never get to go into space

I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Progress always comes at a cost, but if we fear the unknown, we will never get anywhere. Nothing in life is risk-free.

I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, 'Ok...I'll be part of this world'.

Keep in mind, just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean that one does not exist. You simply haven't discovered it yet.

But before we address this question

Nicht um meine Sprache zu verlernen, lerne ich andere Sprachen, sondern ich gehe bloß durch fremde Gärten, um für meine Sprache Blumen zu holen.

New Chapter about New Things

ahora sintiese una dicha muy grande al despertarse en su nueva morada, pensando en todas las cosas bonitas que había visto el día anterior y en lo que podría ver hoy

In the corner near her grandfather's bed she saw a short ladder against the wall; up she climbed and found herself in the hayloft. There lay a large heap of fresh sweet-smelling hay, while through a round window in the wall she could see right down the valley.

Going up to the Alm-Uncle

Study Bach, there you will find everything.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo . However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens... The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking for fresh nourishment.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned. Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609

What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.