Quotes about Exploration
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
— CS Lewis
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
— Cicero
Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.
— Carl Sagan
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
— Mark Twain
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
— Walt Whitman
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.
— Carl Sagan
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Charles Kettering
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
— Abraham Lincoln