Quotes About Exploration

Philippine Sea, Pacific Ocean

Vancouver Island is British Columbia's largest island

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The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

if you were faced with something that appeared impossible, it just meant you were not looking at all of the possibilities.

Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps.

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Faciendi lures libros nullus est finis.

Hard to get lost on this island, the whole place smaller than back home in Blount County, Tennessee.

Problems are adventures in disguise

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Porque el único modo de explorar efectivamente el futuro es entender el presente por completo.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

Moving on and not looking back, not living in the past, was a way to trick myself into further creativity.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

Larry's major concern was not about landing, but to avoid going too high where the air was thin and the temperature low. At about fifteen thousand feet, Larry decided that it was time to descend a bit. As planned, he fired his BB gun at the balloons and punctured seven of them. Just at the moment that he was gazing down to check his altimeter, a gust

To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.

Captain Cook was one of the first to utilize the breakthrough invention called the chronometer. Until then, mariners commonly sailed north or south until they reached the latitude on which their port of destination lay. Then they would sail directly east or west. Latitude sailing

Have fun, think small, don't fear the obvious.

It's much better to ask small questions than big ones.

Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don't be afraid of the obvious.

Muchos de nuestros descubrimientos pueden no ser de mucha utilidad, incluso puede que no sean concluyentes. Pero eso está bien. Lo que intentamos es iniciar una conversación, no tener la última palabra. Y eso significa que en las páginas que siguen puede encontrar unas cuantas cosas de las que discrepe. De hecho, nos decepcionaría que no las encontrara.

The next time you run into a question that you can only pretend to answer, go ahead and say "I don't know"—and then follow up, certainly, with "but maybe I can find out." And work as hard as you can to do that.