Quotes About Exploration

Nuestra tendencia natural es disfrutar de la vida, jugar, explorar, ser felices y amar.

pitching deck of an icebreaker.

If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16)

About the only valid definition (of science fiction) that I'm willing to accept is this: all of modern, mainstream, and realistic fiction is simply a branch, a category, or a subset of science fiction.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

El pensamiento científico es tal vez el mejor método disponible para avanzar a través de territorios impredecibles, desconocidos y complejos, porque nos hace más adaptables y creativos frente a la incertidumbre.

The game of science is, in principle, without end.

Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion or not.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Adventure, the first great theme of the novel.

If you don't care about the destination, you don't ask where you're going.

Chi cerca l'infinito non ha che da chiudere gli occhi.

A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims truths.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and make them leave their refuge.

She now knew there were conditions under which she could feel strong and fulfilled, and she longed to go off into the world and seek those conditions somewhere else.

He reflected that he had only one life and that he wanted to live it somewhere else.

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. (I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.

Jetzt hatte sie begriffen! Wer sich erinnern will, darf nicht an einem Ort verweilen und warten, bis die Erinnerungen von selbst kommen! Die Erinnerungen haben sich in alle Himmelsrichtungen verstreut, und man muss reisen, wenn man sie wiederfinden und aus ihren Schlupfwinkeln holen will!

Y un día, al salir del trabajo, no fue a su casa, sino que salió de la ciudad. No veía nada a su alrededor, no sabía si era verano, otoño o invierno, si caminaba por la orilla del mar o junto al muro de una fábrica; hacía ya mucho que no vivía en el mundo; su único mundo era su alma.

The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.

Le roman n'est pas une confession de l'auteur, mais une exploration de ce qu'est la vie humaine dans le piège qu'est devenu le monde.

Man can not jump out of his life, but perhaps a novel has more freedom.

As personagens do meu romance são as minhas próprias possibilidades não realizadas. É o que faz com que goste igualmente de todas elas e também com que elas me assustem igualmente um pouco. Todas, sem exceção, atravessaram uma fronteira que eu só contornei.