Quotes About Exploration

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes its glasses.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Science is uncertain.

Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.