"Curiosity is the essence of human existence." — Gene Cernan

"Curiosity is the essence of human existence."

— Gene Cernan

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24 Quotes by Gene Cernan

Gene Cernan has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the…
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.
The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.
I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I…
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time…
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor.…
Once I finally stepped on the moon, no matter what was to come of the next three days - or…
As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with…
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of…
OK, let's get this mother out of here.
As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to…

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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity,… — Russell Baker
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who… — Bruce Barton
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. — Robert Benchley
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they… — Isaiah Berlin
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed… — Ambrose Bierce
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

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