Quotes About Exploration

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

education that stops with school stops where it is beginning.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Although I have had offers of wireless installation for the Fram," he said in one rambling interview, "that also I declined. I don't care for it. It is very much better to be without news when you cannot be where the news comes from. We are always more contented if we get no news. A good book we like, we explorers. That is our best amusement and our best time killer.

Amundsen slept with his window wide open at night even in the winter, claiming to his mother that he loved fresh air, but really "it was a part of my hardening process." He organized small expeditions for himself and a few friends, such as overnight treks on skis under a star-studded sky, enlivened by the otherworldly swirling of the aurora borealis, into the winter wilds to improve his toughness.

It wasn't Amundsen's job to make his men happy, but to lead them to victory, alive.

Just when I begin to imagine I have achieved some pinnacle of understanding, reached the summit of the highest climb . . . I scramble the last few feet to the top only to see that I have merely gained a foothold on a narrow plateau and that entire new mountain ranges rise before me, serried ranks of peaks, each one higher than the last.

Had he but known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe, Kit might have been better prepared. At least, he would have brought an umbrella. Like

The path is revealed in the treading.

They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.

We are least ourselves when those bodies are stuck in the concrete of a city sidewalk. We are most ourselves when walking through the mountains.

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers.

The universe is infinite, and the experiences and opportunities available to us are likewise.

There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.

When it comes to creating million dollar inventive ideas, most people stop short of reaching the mother stratum while mining their own seam of gold! Genius takes effort and passion.

Try to study yourself and what is inside you, as the entire world lies in you.

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives.

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.

I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.