Quotes About Exploration

A time when the miracles of technology were still virile and exciting: steam engines and flying machines, not smart phones and cosmetic surgery. When there were still wildernesses left to explore and mountains left unclimbed.

Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crystal pail. Why him wun up the tree? Why him nest up theah? Why him gadder nuts? Why? Why? Why? And Billy answering every question to the best of his ability, as if anything less would disrespect the deep and maybe even divine force that drove his little nephew toward universal knowledge.

It's an important thing and a necessary thing as a writer to always be reaching outside of yourself. They say write what you know. But what you know is rarely enough. You need to know more. But you've got to approach it with a lot of respect and humility. You owe it to the people and experience you're trying to understand. It's not a casual thing.

I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.

I promise to pass through a series of worlds with you," I remembered from her vows.

freedom to take risks—and fail—define the heart of a Skunk Works operation.

The bigger you feel things, the more curious you are; and the more problems you want to solve and not actually run from, the better everything is, even the things you already love.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

Ben Graham, then almost eighty, expressed to a friend the thought that he hoped every day to do "something foolish, something creative and something generous.

different ways. Some to Spain, others to

in uncertainty lies opportunity.

Juan Fernandez islands." Cochrane drew on the cigar and watched its smoke drift out the window. "The islands are three hundred fifty miles off the coast, in the middle of nothing! They're where Robinson Crusoe was marooned, or rather where Alexander Selkirk, who was the original of Crusoe, spent four not uncomfortable years.

I was without a lord. I was outcast. I was free. I was going Viking.

The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them." Shmuel

Manche Menschen sehen die Dinge, wie sie sind, und fragen: Warum? Ich träume von Dingen, die es noch nie gegeben hat, und frage: "Warum nicht?

Die Wege in die Andere Welt sind so zahlreich und verschlungen wie die Flüsse und Bäche, die dem Meer entgegenstreben.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.