Seeking Out New Frontiers

Pasteur. Galileo. Bakke. Einstein. Leakey. Darwin. Oppenheimer. Mendel. Leeuwenhoeuk. Walter Reed. Salk. Hubble. Freud. Pavlov. Copernicus. Curie. Pauling. Farraday. Kepler. Edison. Crick. Harvey. Planck. Hawking. Schroedinger. Euclid. Newton. Binet. Kinsey. Lorenz. Fleming. Koch. Tesla. Goodall. Sagan. Nobel. Cavendish. Volta. Rutherford. Meitner. Franklin. Watt. Daguerre. Braille. Bunsen. Joulle. Maxwell. Franklin. Mach. Roentgen. Ehrlich. Fermi. Heisenberg. Pauling.

Just a few names among many. Who are they? Scientists. Men and women. Seekers. Explorers. They looked inward, they looked outward. They lived and died for their science, some literally. From the moment men crawled out of the cave and looked up into the night sky. From the moment the first flame was created. From the dawn of time until today, humans have endeavored to find answers to the questions. And the questions are endless. Why? How?

On land, in the sea, and the air. Beneath the earth and far above it. Inside the human body and out. Monstrous things and microbes. Dead and gone and not yet created.

There is no limit to the questions that are asked, or the experiments attempted. Discoveries or inventions. It is all about understanding.

When the men who created the atom bomb at Los Alamos came close to the climactic moment there were many who feared the chain reaction would spiral out of control, igniting the very atmosphere of the earth and destroying every living thing. Yet...the proceeded.

In Ancient Greece men of scientific minds posited ... and went to their deaths for their curiosity.

Today men and women climb into the space shuttle to travel into space to discover what lies beyond our world. Or they travel beneath the waves of the oceans to discover what lives deeper than man has ever traveled before.

Whether pure curiosity, or a desire to create, or to benefit or destroy. Science has no boundaries. There will always be another question, another puzzle to be solved. For every answer there arises a new argument.

And there will always be someone there to debate.

Science.

Because we don't know it all.

But we want to.