Quotes About Exploration

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.