Quotes About Exploration

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens.

Paul Gauguin asked, whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going? Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

Watcha doin'?" "Looking for frogs." "How come?" "I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy, let's go exploring!

Any kid that never fantasized about blowing up his school never really went there.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

You are turning me like someone turning a globe in her hand, and yes, I have another side like a China no one, not even me, has ever seen. So describe to me what's there, say what you are looking at and I will close my eyes so I can see it too, the oxcarts and all the lively flags. I love the sound of your voice like a little saxophone telling me what I could never know unless I dug a hole all the way down through the core of myself.

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it.

Programming is like sex: It may give some concrete results, but that is not why we do it. – apologies to Richard Feynman

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.

We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.

The more you search the more you find.