One value of exploring the unknown is the utility it will have on the present time and/or the future to come. We can gain knowledge from exploring the unknown. As time progresses, people can gather information and knowledge more easily, leading to more benefitical inventions and creative minds.   

• One Example of exploring the unknown is Charles Babbage. By exploring the unknown, he created the first computer in 1822, eventually leading to more complex electronic designs 

• Helped found the Analytical Society 

• assisted in establishing the modern postal system in England 

• served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.