Quotes About Exploration

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

A book is like a vacation for the brain.

"For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

You're telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?"Kohler shrugged. "Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

Don't conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

Sometimes I'm tired simply means I need something new.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

When I escape from my cage of conformity, I grow wings to fly in search of truth and beauty.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific – the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.

his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific – the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.

MacKaye never varied his equipment: a Gibson SG guitar and a Marshall amplifier. "Even though I know that there's a lot of options, I'm not interested in options," he says. "I'm interested in how far I can take this simple equation, which is an amp, a cord, and a guitar, and how much I can do with it.

We'd pull into a town," Haynes said, "and we didn't know where the clubs were. We'd literally pull over somebody and say, 'Hey, where do the queers hang out? Where's the college area?

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