Quotes About Exploration

math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences.

and out comes another empirical truth, possibly a new one, a fact about the universe that nobody knew before (like the existence of electromagnetic waves).

Boredom is the laboratory where new enthusiasms prepare themselves,

Wandering from room to room discovering another side to the moon.

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.

Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.

That the epic journey of Homo sapiens has taken us from the savannah to space is indisputable, but we do not have one simple, comprehensive account of this multigenerational sojourn—and we never will, no matter how much we excavate. Rather, we have grainy snapshots, faded sketches, souvenirs of mysterious purpose, maps of unspecified scales drawn long after the fact, and stories which change with each storyteller and occasion.

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

The march of technology expands the space of possibility around us, but how we explore that space is up to us.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next

As children we are taught not to play with fire, not how to play with fire.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Where–if anywhere–do our actual limits lie?

Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

He had no sympathy for people who wanted to know how things worked, people who wanted to explore things, people who wanted to improve the systems they studied and dreamed about.

in keeping with the Hacker Ethic, no artificial boundaries were maintained.

central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.

Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doing this.

project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack.

Peter Samson and his friends had grown up with a specific relationship to the world, wherein things had meaning only if you found out how they worked.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.