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“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

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

Source: The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures

“[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.”

World Mind Science Mystery Adventure Seeking Imaginative Seeking Truth

Author:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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

Author:Marcel Proust

“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”

Science Certain Loses Numbers Business Greater Adventure Travel Approach Certainty Loser Tickets Funny Travel Lottery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

“One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.”

Seems Science One Thing Fields Adventure Theory Simplicity Chiefs Hypothesis Selection Elegance Attempting Criteria

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.”

“A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.”

Feelings Problem Science Strong Adventure Hard Work Fundamentals Biology Viruses Small Parts Strong Feeling

Author:Max Delbruck

“I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.”

Life Feels Different Enough Would Be Science Found Understanding Adventure Exploration Mammals

Book:Science Study Series

Source: Science Study Series

“I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.”

Men Wells Enough Science Left Adventure Experiments Wiser

Book:Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 70+ Adventure Classics & Science Fiction Novels (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Chronicles, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Moon Trilogy, The Venus Series, Westerns, Lost World Novels, Fantasy Classics, Historical Novels and more

Source: Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 70+ Adventure Classics & Science Fiction Novels (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Chronicles, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Moon Trilogy, The Venus Series, Westerns, Lost World Novels, Fantasy Classics, Historical Novels and more

“In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”

“It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.”

“Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.”

“The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!”

Humans Science Spirit Adventure Theory Extraordinary Observation Elsewhere Human Spirit Theoretical Exhibits Conjecture Verification

Book:The planet Neptune: an exposition and history

Source: The planet Neptune: an exposition and history

“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Done Age Science Dies Turns Strong Successful Middle Adventure Comfortable Settling Vitality Middle Ages Settling Down Custodians Senile

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.”

Facts Past Science Adventure Civilization Achievement Decay Great Achievement

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas

“Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we may keep on the chosen road but it does not itself necessarily lead to discovery. The investigator must be ready and on the spot when the light comes from whatever direction.”

Thinking Should May Doe Light Science Process Results Adventure Ready Discovery Logic Chosen Spots Logical Investigators

Author:Theobald Smith

“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.”

“A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.”

Would Be Today Science Common Wonder Emotional Adventure Criticism Claims Certainty Objectivity Fallacy Adverse Infallibility

Author:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen.”