Quotes About Exploration

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

Science brings men nearer to God.

We need to make science cool again.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.