Quotes About Exploration

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

There are no limits to what science can explore.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.