Quotes about Discovery

I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.

Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its merits. The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental new insights.

Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What was 'Apollo' really about?

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.