Quotes About Exploration

Bruno believed that the universe is infinite and filled with an infinite number of habitable worlds. He also believed that although each world exists for a brief moment when compared to the life of the universe, space itself is neither created nor destroyed; the universe is eternal.

I don't need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find.

Science is the enemy of the certain

El dolor era una carga demasiado pesada para arrastrarla en un viaje a través de las estrellas.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary.

And he wants to bring me up to the back hills next Sunday - up to Lough Anna. His father has a boat there. And I'm thinking maybe I'll bring a bottle of milk with me. And I've enough money saved to buy a packet of chocolate biscuits.

You've been there before?" "Twenty-odd years ago on the U-2 program." Ross was intrigued; he's still a collegiate at heart — young enough to be eager-beaverish. "What's it like up there?" "The end of the world.

Where are you going?" said Abram. Mikael looked upriver, a sad distant gaze in his eyes, and said, "Babylon.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

It was a magnificent setting in a remote part of the world. My kind of place.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Without wonder, there's no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don't exercise your capacity for wonder... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization that's starting to atrophy and die.