Quotes About Exploration

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.