Exploration & Discovery Quotes

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules, I've seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Learning is the gateway to adventure.

GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape people's lives and viewing the present in the context of history.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.