Quotes About Exploration

What if this led only to another, deeper level of the lightless lands?

The person you were still lives inside you. You must find him.

He was inventing the world beyond, peopling it, making them live.

He wanted to feel the touch of those hands himself, discover whether it would affect him in the same way.

We stripped the flower of its foilage and purred and rubbed our faces across its flesh.

He wondered whether what he had heard indicated that a city was moving far above him on the surface, and whether the wounding thunder meant that, it had foundered, or collided with another city.

If hunting was his province, mind-seeking was mine.

Someone had once said to him that belief itself was a sickness, a dead end for the questing intelligence of the human mind. It seemed he'd infected himself with a debilitating dose.

The ceiling sloped downwards gradually as if teasing him. He kept taking long, measured lungsful of air, sure that every one would be his last, only to find there was time to take another. Then the stone kissed the water, and he had no chance but to descend, feeling blindly with his hands, kicking with his feet.

What an unfortunate time for the wanderlust to strike!

Why am I attracted to magic? Write down your responses. You might find you write a poem, or even something that later you will be able to use in a ritual. No-one else will read it, so you can be as honest as you like. Date the page. It is the beginning of a mgical diary.

Only the promise of greater comforts kept me travelling.

The world is a fascinating place, and I travel within it. I'm come to places like this to unearth their secrets. There are always plenty.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

He felt that once the dark of the forest closed over them, they would never see clear sunlight again. Yet it was the kind of fear that excited him, made him want to dare its shadows.

From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they had been chained since the beginning of time.

history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.

Some say that we should stop exploring space, that the cost in human lives is too great. But Columbia's crew would not have wanted that. We are a curious species, always wanting to know what is over the next hill, around the next corner, on the next island. And we have been that way for thousands of years.

A book is a little thing that is bigger on the inside, and makes the reader bigger inside as well, a Tardis of ink and glue and paper and words.

You are on your quest. That is exciting. If you're balanced, your boat floats on a low tide in the same way as it does on a high tide.

Curiosity never killed this cat' — that's what I'd like as my epitaph

It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.

Knowledge advances as much through negative results and thwarted hypotheses as it does by theories that prove to be correct.