Quotes About Exploration

Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.

I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

In space you don't stop.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.

We especially need imagination in science.

Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.

Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I'd be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some hobbits, castles, dragons, princesses, and all that other shit.

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.

I began to realize that I could go wherever and whenever I dreamed.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. "—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.

The world is a spheroid, designed to never end. We can explore it without limits, and we will have not end.