Quotes About Exploration

Our whole lives are a struggle with mysteries. Mysteries endanger us, support us, destroy us. Our great scientists have cleared away these mysteries in some directions by deepening them in others.

Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.

So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We're forging out into deep space – who knows what we'll meet out there? If we can't even accept a robot and some talking elephants, what good are we going to be when we meet something really strange?

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Play is the highest form of research.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

once you stop learning you start dying

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.