Quotes About Exploration

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Science is always inquiring.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

I've always been interested in science fiction

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.