Quotes About Exploration

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

with a duffel bag over his shoulder.

I am entirely well," said Eldric, "which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of science, I don't care about understanding. I simply want to go outside and break a few windows.

Is this what a nun feels when she runs wild? Perhaps running wild needn't mean dressing in satin and taking to cigarettes. It might mean running into the wild, into the real, into the ooze and muck and the clean, muddy smell of life.

Truth is irrelavant to the treading out of brain paths.

Truth is irrelevant to the treading out of brain paths.

But those stories inspire observations and experiments that do help us sort out what's going on. The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

Harry Harlow, a well-known American primatologist, was an early critic of the hunger reduction model. He argued that intelligent animals learn mostly through curiosity and free exploration, both of which are likely killed by a narrow fixation on food. He poked fun at the Skinner box, seeing it as a splendid instrument to demonstrate the effectiveness of food rewards but not to study complex behavior.

The science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov reportedly once said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.

All that nature can offer is information and inspiration, not prescription.

humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence threatens to violate our expectations.

we must employ tactics that allow us to learn as many things as possible without getting stuck in a particular way of thinking about those things.

All of this suggests that it makes sense to spend significant amounts of time reading and drawing, learning and experimenting, without guidance from instructors, peers, and experts.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Paths are made by walking

A man remains knowing as long as he searches for knowledge and continues to study. When he thinks he knows, he has become ignorant.

And I begin to learn.

Solo estamos en la edad de piedra del conocimiento de los animales y nuestra ignorancia al respecto sigue siendo enciclopédica. Por no mencionar los prejuicios ancestrales.

We travel to come home; we come home to travel.

While the body may be trapped in this place, the mind is always free to roam wherever it feels safe.