Quotes About Exploration

Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

scholars—scholarship without erudition and natural curiosity can close your mind and lead to the fragmentation of disciplines.

There are so many things we can do if we focus on antiknowledge, or what we do not know.

It would be preferable if we were better at understanding cancer or the (highly nonlinear) weather than the origin of the universe. How

in spite of having spent some time in libraries I feel that I am truly an amateur in the subject matter).

Your mind keeps playing alternative scenarios branching out of a main tree:

They thought out of the box, like traders, except much better and without fear of introspection.

Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools, not to induce nature to yield its secrets.

On the day when we are able to foresee inventions we will be living in a state where everything conceivable has been invented. Our

in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking in the same place twice.

but would treat cost of search as "loss.

Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have.

Trial and error is freedom.

You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.

The sea gets deeper as you go further into it

only suckers wait for answers; questions are not made for answers):

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity.

We need people to take (bounded) risks.

The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities when they present themselves.

The Discovery of France

He can work any hours he likes, travel at a whim, and engage in all manner of personal pursuits.

Wouldn't that be stifling?

Frédéric Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre; he