Anais Nin Quotes

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

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.

Fear of the unknown is a great creative partner.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

If we don’t go, we don’t know.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.

I think the curiosity of mankind, that we want something unknown. Like, 500 years ago, humankind wanted to know what the other side of the ocean is, and it was a very risky project, and then we decided that probably we can fly; let's fly higher. And now we're flying space station, and still it's not enough for us: we want to know what's beyond.

If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.