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Quotes About Exploration

Science is the topography of ignorance.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
~ Frederik Pohl
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
~ Freeman Dyson
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
~ Simone Weil
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
~ Rudolf Virchow
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
~ Arthur Koestler
What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
~ David Eagleman
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
~ William Herschel
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
~ Christiaan Huygens
If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.
~ Peter Russell
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
~ C. F. Powell
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
~ Mark Twain
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
~ Marvin Minsky
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.
~ Isaac Asimov
Study the science of art and the art of science.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder
~ Phil Plait
Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
~ Charles Fort
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I didn't think; I experimented.
~ Anthony Burgess
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
~ Bill Nye
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
~ Carl Sagan