Quotes About Exploration

just longitude and latitude. Thirty-seven degrees, fifty-six minutes north by one hundred seven degrees, forty-nine minutes west.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before he wandered off to explore the house.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring'.

because she was scared of what people in the Land of Beautiful might say or think about her face. Let them say what they want. Leave Terra Bella to the shallow, and claim the world for your own. The entire world, that's what I wanted. I wanted to travel it, experience it, revel in it. Abraham Ortelius made history in 1570 with his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the Theatre of the World, the first modern atlas of Earth as was known and catalogued at that moment.

We didn't have to go all the way to China to see beauty. Or to have an adventure. They were both right here, literally in our backyard.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.

Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

You don't need a geochache for this one." "You don't, huh?" "Nope.. here I am. Here I am.

There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere.

A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

North-ish." A pause, and then: "Is that Terra for I'm lost-ish?

People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries - as if the words are synonymous with boredom or timidity. But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them?

People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries....But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them.

if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

Did you ever hear of a place called Sphoe?

I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.

My two great loves are physics and New Mexico. It's a pity they can't be combined.

Weinberg, whom Oppenheimer had come to regard as one of his brightest students, observed that mathematical formulas were like temporary hand-holds for a rock-climber. Each hand-hold more or less dictates the position of the next hand-hold. "A record of that," Weinberg said, "is a record of a particular climb. It gives you very little of the shape of the rock.

Während sie die Stufen zur Bibliothek hinablief, konnte Furia die Geschichten schon riechen: den besten Geruch der Welt.