Quotes About Exploration

I want to do something very surprising next. I don't know what that is - something that has a high degree of risk.

If somebody is excited to cast me in a character that is surprising even for me to play, that is something I'll be looking for.

The Great British Dig' is a fantastic format which combines finding out about the history of where you live and the surprising things that lie under your own back garden. Its kind of a community archaeology project.

Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.

It is quite surreal when you go to places up the north, like Inner Mongolia, and you are getting mobbed at the airport.

When the engine cut off and we were in orbit, it was surreal.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and get side-tracked, and forget where I was supposed to be going.

Anemone Cave, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine

He was going somewhere, he knew that. And if it was the wrong direction, sooner or later he'd find it out.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

Call me Sunset. I'm always moving west.

The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.

I love a question I can't answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.

There are sunsets above other oceans, Ghuda. Mighty sights and great wonders to behold.

Raymond E. Feist

D'abord, cette fois-ci, nous n'allons pas en Egypte (à quoi na sert ?) mais nous voguons vers Carthage.

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

Every morning I had to force myself to leave the apartment, so dark and protected, its walls lined with books. I stared longingly at the few English titles scattered among them. No, I'd tell myself sternly, you will not sit in an apartment in Rome reading William James' Varieties of Religious Experience. Get out there and have some experiences for yourself, religious or otherwise. And I'd push myself out into the relentless noise and glare.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.