Pioneering

Definition: venturing into that which is unknown or untried <sometimes to prepare the way for others>

Compatible Quality: alertly courageous

Parental Qualities: faith, freedom

Familial Quality: adventurous

Quote: As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography, and lasers on which modern society depends. — Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007) American biochemist

Symbols: 1) the covered wagon; 2) a space capsule