Quotes About Exploration

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Science is the poetry of reality.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.