Quotes About Exploration

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

What you are looking for is what is looking.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Children always want to look behind mirrors.

Les grands voyages ont ceci de merveilleux que leur enchantement commence avant le départ même. On ouvre les atlas, on rêve sur les cartes. On répète les noms magnifiques des villes inconnues.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

was temporarily suspending my disbelief, to allow an unusual experience to happen.

You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

Vi?i gausi so?o pa Breju, tad atpaka? uz Lohlinstaunu vai Šenkilu, k?jodami pa nez?l?m aizauguš?m, nel?dzen?m tak?m, pa pe???m kl?tiem, šauriem meža ce?iem k? skolaspuika ar savu sirds???ti, kas norun?juši randi?u klus? vieti??, jo tr?kst naudas, lai liet? aizietu kur citur.

I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

If you cannot point to a particular actual or imagined room, among the billions of rooms in the world, and state truthfully, Inside that room I will find joy - well, then you have found a useful measure of where you stand in the matter of joy. And in the matter of rooms, too.

A teacher should start from a young person's own present interest, she felt, and lead them into a wider and deeper understanding of the world into which they were going.

To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Count Chojnicki was curious. No other passion than curiosity sent him out into the world, drew him to the tables of the great gaming halls, sequestered him behind the walls of his old hunting pavilion, sat him down on the parliamentarians' benches, determined that he would return home every spring, compelled him to throw his regular parties, and prevented him from cutting his own throat. It was curiosity that kept him alive.

And it was where he had found the stick.

And don't forget the fox dung.

flying hedgehogs.

Slate reached the thorn tree and leaped into the branches, climbing nimbly to the very top. The moonlight turned her thick, gray pelt to silver and her eyes shone like two tiny moons. The branch swayed beneath her and she balanced there without a trace of fear.

Sandstorm had drawn a few paces ahead, and had paused at the foot of a tree to sniff the bark. "Come and look at this," she called, beckoning with her tail.