Quotes About Exploration

Knowledge … is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski

El auténtico descubridor. No obstante, no es el hombre que, tiene la suerte de tropezarse con alguna cosa, sino el hombre que encuentra lo que iba buscando.

El auténtico descubridor. No obstante, no es el hombre que, el primero, tiene la suerte de tropezarse con alguna cosa, sino el hombre que encuentra lo que iba buscando.

I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew it in the soles of my feet, in the sturdy muscles of my calves. Surely the finding mattered more than the losing.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.

Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.

Where is everything?' Kendall and I chorused.

It seemed so real it truly felt as if we were wrapped in rich furs, gliding over shiny white ice, with polar bears lumbering past, seals barking and waving their flippers, and penguins sliding comically on their tummies down the icy slopes into the black sea.

Do you want to be an actress too?' I wondered if she was mocking me. 'I don't know what I want to be,' I said. 'Well, what are you good at?' said Sarah.

Milly-Molly-Mandy

Maurice's maxim: "To solve a problem, take it for a walk.

Seek the opportunity to swim beyond your own little pond.

you have to move—go to another room, step out on a walk, or drive to a place fresh to you. Move yourself, and you move your mind. Look at the evidence from different angles.

Seek the opportunity to swim beyond your own little pond. She knew every reed, mud-bank, and fish in her pond. Perhaps it was time to look for that flat after all, sooner rather than later.

When you told me about the different subjects--psychology, ethics, philosophy, logic--that's what I most wanted to study. . . It's not so--well--definite, is it? Sometimes it's like a maze, with no answers, only more questions.

When there are many worlds you can choose the one you walk into each day.

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

Every explorer I have met has been driven—not coincidentally but quintessentially—by curiosity, by a single-minded, insatiable, and even jubilant need to know.

no one can absolutely control the direction of his life; but each person can certainly influence it. The armchair explorers who complain that they never got their "one lucky shot" were never really infected by the incurable drive to explore. Those who have the bug—go.

To enlarge the human perspective, to build on knowledge for future generations, to identify dangers, and to chart the course to a better world: If these are the goals of the explorer, then everyone—voyager, scientist and citizen, parent and child—is engaged in humanity's momentous expedition.