Quotes about Exploration

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

We do not lealve the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions, We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore.

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.