Quotes About Exploration

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.