Quotes About Exploration

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.

The world is an empty place if we keep our minds shut! But eyes wide open and the world explodes with wonderment completely at our figertips!

I understood, for example, that finding one's way in the desert is much easier by night than by day, that the points of reference are numerous and certain. In the years which I spent in the open desert I never once got lost, thanks to the stars. Many times, when searching for a Tuareg camp or a lost weather station, I lost my way because the sun was too high in the sky. But I waited for night and found the road again, guided by the stars.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

Nature is our home, and in nature we are at home. This strange, multicoloured and astonishing world which we explore – where space is granular, time does not exist, and things are nowhere – is not something that estranges us from our true selves, for this is only what our natural curiosity reveals to us about the place of our dwelling. About the stuff of which we ourselves are made.

You don't get to new places by following established tracks.

What opens our minds and shows the limits of our ideas is an encounter with other people, other cultures, other ideas.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking. Its strength is its visionary capacity to demolish preconceived ideas, to reveal new regions of reality, and to construct new and more effective images of the world. This adventure rests upon the entirety of past knowledge, but at its heart is change.

Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined. Twenty

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is our nature to be so.

Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider

The search for knowledge is not nourished by certainty: it is nourished by a radical absence of certainty.

Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.

Nuestro saber es demasiado débil para no aceptar vivir en el misterio. Y precisamente porque el misterio existe, y porque es tan profundo, no podemos confiar en quien declara poseer la llave de este misterio. Aceptar la incertidumbre y la novedad de un pensamiento que busca nuevos caminos conlleva nuevos riesgos.

What counts is not the pen used for writing but the poetry that is written. The reason we take interest in an automobile engine is not because it makes wheels turn; it is because it takes us places that we could not reach by foot. The turning wheels are just the mechanism of an instrument that allows us to journey.

It is thus that serious scientists are made.

To accept uncertainty doesn't detract from our sense of mystery.

Lo que nos hace avanzar es la duda y no la certeza.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so. One