Quotes About Exploration

Does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take?

Brandon Sanderson

Contrary to what everyone had once assumed, the star wasn't merely a spot of light in the sky. Telescopes revealed it was a planet. Occupied, according to their best guess, by other people. A place whose light somehow cut through the shroud.

I see adventure," I said. "I see mysteries and striking beauty. Watch the water shimmer as it falls. Doesn't it look gorgeous?

The sea was so open, so welcoming. Pay her a little respect, and she would carry you anywhere you wished to go. She'd even feed you along the way and lull you to sleep with her songs at night.

We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.

This is nice. Very roomy for a shack on a mountainside in the middle of a deadly jungle on an isolated island surrounded by monsters.

Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.

Tendríamos que enseñar a nuestros niños a ser más atentos, más inquisitivos. No solo a destruir, sino también a construir.

Q: The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did...We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did. Picard: When I realized the paradox. Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty.

New worlds are important, but you can't just describe them. Give us the stories that make up that universe. No matter how wild and weird the new world might be, we'll see ourselves in the stories.

As researcher and writer Sherry Turkle says, "Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

Creating is the act of paying attention to our experiences and connecting the dots so we can learn more about ourselves and the world around us.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected. —Reif Larsen I love maps not because they dictate the route or tell me when or how to travel, but simply because they mark the waypoints I will eventually visit. Knowing that these places exist and that they are well traveled, even if they are unexplored by me, is powerful. I

I am a mapmaker and a traveler." It's my way of telling you that I don't have the answers. I have data, and I use that data to chart a course that I'm sharing with you and trying to navigate at the same time.

curiosity is correlated with creativity, intelligence, improved learning and memory, and problem solving.

When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation. When

Awe and wonder are essential to the human experience. Wonder fuels our passion for exploration and learning, for curiosity and adventure. Researchers have found that awe "leads people to cooperate, share resources, and sacrifice for others" and causes them "to fully appreciate the value of others and see themselves more accurately, evoking humility.

I am a traveler, not a mapmaker. I am going down this path same as and with you.

experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Only when we're brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.'" He

creativity is the mechanism that allows learning to seep into our being and become practice.