Quotes About Exploration

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn on your own.

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.