Naveen Jain Quotes

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

The unknown is always interesting.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.