Quotes About Exploration

But one of the truly delightful things about science fiction is that it is far less about new ideas than it is about finding new ways to think about old ones.

Oh, come on, Fura." Her eyes were wide with anticipation. I knew she'd had a glass of wine when we came in but there was nothing foggy or reddened about them. "We're a stone's throw from Neural Alley. I've got some quoins. Let's go and live a little.

I want to make sense of the world, Doctor. I want to undo the screws, take off its elegant face, glimpse the glittering movement, poke around in the gears and then decide if it's broken or not. Then I want to know if there is anything we can do to put it back together again. There may not be, but at least we'd have the satisfaction of knowing.' ' We'd be satisfied by our own impotence?' ' We won't know until we try

It was good to be loved, good to love another human being – even in the belly of a starship arrowing for unmapped space.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

At its heart, 'Meru' is a personal story.

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

I try to challenge myself, each week, to do something that is a little different or something maybe a little more exciting or personalized.

'Change' is seen as a dirty word, but personally, I'm searching for it.

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.