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Quotes About Exploration

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~ Claude Bernard
Truth is a pathless land.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.
~ Ann Druyan
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
~ Jules Verne
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
~ Luther Burbank
You don't know what you can do until you try.
~ Publilius Syrus
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
~ Pete Seeger
The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself'.
~ Deepak Chopra
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The right to search for truth implies also a duty.
~ Albert Einstein
[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.
~ Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
~ Carl Sagan
The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.
~ Adam Carolla
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
~ Douglas Adams
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
~ Martha Beck
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
~ Seneca the Younger
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
~ Bernard Berenson
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
~ Austin O'Malley
I've always been fascinated by weather.
~ Shepard Smith
Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.
~ John H. Lienhard
Endless is the search of truth.
~ Laurence Sterne
Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
~ Cassandra King
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
~ Bertrand Russell