Quotes About Exploration

If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.

You don't have to label yourself, because it's not set in stone. It's so fluid, and there's so much pressure on kids to label themselves and say, 'This is what I am; this is what I like.'

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

I haven't studied theology in any systematic way. I don't think I'd find certain subjects - canon law, for instance - terribly interesting. But I'm always picking around and finding different things.

Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true.

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem.

I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.

Our greatest theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, recently declared that humans have no more than a hundred years to get off this planet to ensure the survival of our species. And when someone such as he does so, it is with an understanding not just of the science, but of both our tenuous place and our possibility in the universe.

Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

Very dangerous things, theories.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!