Quotes About Exploration

The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

The legalization of marijuana will accelerate the awakening of this world. It will bring its own issues, but it will not create any addictions. Nothing creates addictions; those things just provide vessels for people to explore their pre-existing dependency issues.

And there is also the understanding that you're creating, which is really discovering, it is again still valuable. Everything exists already. It is infinite. The matrix is infinite. So there is a sense of discovery. We will be discovering it eternally.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

A crowd of tourists were standing in the laundry room. They were speaking languages.

If you're an alien, how come you sound like you come from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north.' Doctor Who, 2005

to wander among the neat rows of boutiques.

There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun.

I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze.

As the poet E. E. Cummings observed, "Always a more beautiful answer that asks a more beautiful question.

So few people know what they're capable of.

Return to your longing. It will teach you everything.

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

As I walked, I began to hear the sound of running water. It's impossible to hear that sound and not go searching for the source.

You gotta imagine what's never been

The aim of the novelist is not only to hold up a mirror to the world, but to imagine what's possible.

The place of expansion is always on the border, on the edge... If we're going to become whole, we have to go to the edge.

What else do you love, Lily?" No one had ever asked me this before. What did I love?

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

I walked back past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it.

you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from.

Uncovering this need has been like finding an empty room in the center of my house, one I didn't know was there, one I couldn't pass without feeling its vacuity and wondering how it should be filled. I know I came to Greece in part to try and fill this vacancy in myself. I just didn't think it would have anything to do with Mary.