Quotes About Exploration

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

Knowledge is the death of research.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.