Quotes About Exploration

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Research is appreciation.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?