Quotes About Exploration

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Welcome to science. You're gonna like it here.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Science is the search for truth.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.