Quotes about Exploration

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

Look to the stars and from them learn.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

Books, he said—books. One reads so many, and one sees so few people and so little of the world. Great thick books about the universe and the mind and ethics. You've no idea how many there are. I must have read twenty or thirty tons of them in the last five years. Twenty tons of ratiocination. Weighted with that, one's pushed out into the world.

Primitive man explored the pharmaceutical avenues of escape from the world with a truly astonishing thoroughness. Our ancestors left almost no natural stimulant, or hallucinant, or stupefacient, undiscovered. Necessity is the mother of invention; primitive man, like his civilized descendant, felt so urgent a need to escape occasionally from reality, that the invention of drugs was fairly forced upon him.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.