Quotes About Exploration

I lived here my whole life and I've never been to this neighborhood.' And Big Mike finally spoke up. 'Don't worry,' he said. 'I got your back.

It is the innovation that never occurs, and the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.

With every stroke of their keyboards they hacked a path through the forest that others would be required to follow.

young man who set out to study the Talmud, not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.

Silicon Valley in the late 1990s was the closest that business has ever come to resembling a child's chemistry experiment.

In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat.

The person who makes his living searching for the new new thing is not like most people, however. He does not seriously want to sink back into any chair. He needs to keep on groping. He chooses to live perpetually with that sweet tingling discomfort of not quite knowing what it is he wants to

It confirmed Biederman's sense that "most advances in science come not from eureka moments but from 'hmmm, that's funny.

No one seemed to be exploring the most efficient and least disruptive ways to remove people from social networks.

I've always felt ideas were a dime a dozen," he said. "If you had one that didn't work out, you should not fight too hard to save it, just go find another.

The man who groped for the new new thing was in many ways ill suited for mainstream business.

Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling. 'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.' 'You said it, Cornelius!

For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one... And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

The cave stretches back a long way. All we can do is press on until we find its far wall," Elric said. "Let's hope that its far wall lies not downwards," Moonglum said ironically as he motioned Elric to lead on.

On such ventures as these one is inclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream.

One day, she told us, you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

I would set out on a quest, a quest I could achieve without ever leaving

I think I was born to sail, and I mean that. So when I set off on my great sailing adventure, it was because I wanted to do it.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.