Quotes About Exploration

fortochka. It is a tiny window cut inside a larger pane. Even when windows have been sealed for the long winter, the fortochka can remain in use, being opened regularly to allow air to circulate. The Soviet university, as it turned out, had its fortochkas, and the way to learn was to hunt for them and then to stick your whole face in them and breathe the fresh air as though one's lungs could be filled up with reserve supplies.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The journey itself is my home.

There is a certain sort of innocence that comes with curiosity. Who

to meet someone new because I'm curious about people," although

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view. [...] A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. The forest is more interesting than the clearing.

Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa.

Google has likewise turned itself into a trial-and-error company, by encouraging employees to spend 20 per cent of their time on their own projects.

The wonderful thing about knowledge is that it is genuinely limitless. There is not even a theoretical possibility of exhausting the supply of ideas, discoveries and inventions.

Science is like a hungry furnace that must feed from the the forest of ignorance that surrounds us.

But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is filled with secrets.

how can conceptual worlds, different material practices, along variously restrained or absolutely rude interdisciplinary dynamics be satisfactorily brought together in a way that seeks not to develop a necessarily unifying framework, but to hold in its hands for a few moments an explosion of activity and ideas to which it hopes to add an echo?

mmmm, space stuff

You people with your quests annoy the pants off me.

Keep digging and you'll always discover a new low.

Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.