Quotes About Exploration

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.

As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.

Pour se repérer dans l'incertitude, il faut d'abord se perdre dans la complexité.

Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night.

Education can be glorious. At its best, to quote Roman philosopher Lucretius, it is a "voyage in mind throughout infinity.

There is a world of difference between being lost in the daylight and being lost in the dark.

Like Doctor Who's TARDIS, or like the house in that book Anna had loaned him once, the one where a bunch of young assholes got lost while driving through a mountain range and wound up at the creepy manor home of a monster disguised as a human.

The Nature of the Beast. I have always been curious about other human species

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

You can't learn less.

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Throughout his 720-page book Three Years of Arctic Service, Greely's

Orellana's achievement would later be called one of the world's greatest explorations, "something more than a journey, and more like a miraculous event.

Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, would

In places the Amazon sprawls a remarkable fifty miles wide; it can vary in depth with floodwaters or tides by as much as fifty feet; and, near its terminus at the Atlantic, it contains an island the size of Switzerland.

Of the nearly two hundred men who had parted ways with Francisco Orellana's group, only eighty made it back to Quito. They had traveled, mostly on foot, more than two thousand miles, and literally everything they had started the expedition with—200 horses, 2,000 to 3,000 swine, 2,000 dogs, and more than 4,000 native bearers—was gone, dead and gone, along with the 120 of their companions who had perished en route.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

Nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others, and may chance to make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.