Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

Education is possibility set in motion.

Learning is the gateway to adventure.

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

Learning is always great!

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.

The sky is no longer the limit.

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.