Quotes About Exploration

and go looking for a potted plant that appears hardy enough to survive being irrigated with the stuff.

They've pushed it far, this little toy space station; but who's to say if it is God's intention for humans to live here, in orbit around this swollen alien giant of a planet?

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before

messing around with the structure of space-time in order to find a way around the Beckenstein bound.

Then I'll take you there.

Shandy. Have you begun your Ptolemaic

We went to a Barnes and Noble, where I picked up an unauthorized biography of M.C. Hammer, and not wanting to overload her on her first book, I steered Dumb Dumb toward a Choose Your Own Adventure.

And last but not least, go for it. Go wherever you can afford to go with whomever you can get to go with you.

A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.

The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn deep into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

If they can put one man on the moon, why can't they put them all there?

If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.

fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process.

Having an end date for your quest through the noveling unknown is like bringing along a team of jetpack-wearing, entrepreneurial Sherpas.

You are doing this because you are fantastic and brave and curious. And, yes, you are probably a little crazy. And this is a good thing.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child)," Mau's maxim went. "Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

If they veered left, it would feel to them as if they were sinking into the earth: the path would narrow as the ground around them rose up to their hips, then shoulders, then heads. The walls would turn from sod to stone, and it would seem as if they were walking inside a crag in a cliff. The sky would be reduced to a thin swath of blue, broken in parts by the branches of the trees that grew above them along the sides of this ancient channel.

Trouble is our only defense against boredom.

A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

Because, my dear friends, these twelve children have lived their entire lives without a public library. As a result, they have no idea how extraordinarily useful, helpful, and funful - a word I recently invented - a library can be. This is their chance to discover that a library is more than a collection of dusty old books. It is a place to learn, explore, and grow! -Mr. Lemoncello

And for the first time in his life, Kyle Keeley wanted to check out a library book more than anything in the world.

A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible -Dr. Zinchencko

Open a Book and Open Your Mind.