Quotes About Exploration

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

Art is science made flesh.

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

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Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be.