Quotes About Exploration

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

our 'Physick' and 'Anatomy' have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Siéntate ante los hechos como un niño pequeño, disponte a abandonar cualquier idea preconcebida, sigue a la naturaleza dondequiera y a cualesquiera abismos a los que te lleve, o no aprenderás nada

T]he constitution of man's nature is of itself subject to desire novelty.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

That was travel, she supposed. A dance across surfaces to see the face of everything and learn the meaning of very little.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

romping in pedagogically forbidden territory. They

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

If what most people take for granted were really true—if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now. If

If what most people take for granted were really true—if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now.

Let this be the ending of the book but by no means the end of the searching.

In one sense we are always travelling, and travelling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived.

Now is not the time to tolerate the religions of the world; it's time to seek them out and study them and be affected by them.

Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!