Quotes About Exploration

England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the other side of the world.

Közden ellerim ile, ateÅŸin tabiat? hakk?nda yaz?yorum.

BALLOONS – With balloons we will end up going to the moon. We shan't be able to navigate them any time soon.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

There is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown.

Meetings constitute the charm of travelling. Who does not know the joy of coming, five hundred leagues from one's native land, upon a Parisian, a college friend, or a neighbour in the country? Who has not spent a night, unable to sleep, in the little jingling stage-coach of countries where steam is still unknown, beside a strange young woman, half seen by the gleam of the lantern when she clambered into the carriage at the door of a white house in a little town?

I have tried travel. The loneliness which one feels in strange places terrified me.

Le voyage est une espèce de porte par où l'on sort de la réalité connue pour pénétrer dans une réalité inexplorée qui semble un rêve.

The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones.

Le tourisme, se ramène fondamentalement au loisir d'aller voir ce qui est devenu banal.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken (- Robert Frost-)

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny . . ." —Isaac Asimov

When telescopes work, everyone is an astronomer, and the world is full of stars. When they don't, everyone whips out their microscopes, and the world is full of flaws. The reality is that you need both microscopes and telescopes to achieve success.

Žijeme naÅ¡e životy na malém ostr?vku zaslepenosti, bez povÄ›domí o temných oceánech nekone?na okolo nás. NemÄ›li bychom se snažit pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ rozhlížet. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.

Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

My slight fall had extinguished the lantern, but I produced an electric pocket lamp and viewed the small horizontal tunnel which led away indefinitely in both directions. It was amply large enough for a man to wriggle through; and though no sane person would have tried at that time, I forgot danger, reason, and cleanliness in my single-minded fever to unearth the lurking fear.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.

It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.