Quotes About Exploration

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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ? next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That's what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

One spring afternoon as a child in the strange town of Portland, I walked down to a different street corner, and saw a row of old houses, huddled together like seals on a rock.

He chuckles at all the people he knows who have taken out bank loans to travel to exotic places like Europe but who have never seen a single state park right here near home.

We are careless of that which is near us, and follow that which is afar off, to which we will travel and sail beyond the seas.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

There is much that we are unsure about in science. Where science scores over alternative world views is that we know our uncertainty, we can often measure its magnitude, and we work optimistically to reduce it.

If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope eventually to understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.

It has been estimated that there are between 1 billion and 30 billion planets in our galaxy, and about 100 billion galaxies in the universe.

We'd be outraged if our government invested in expensive telescopes for the sole purpose of searching for orbiting teapots. But we can appreciate the case for spending money on SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, using radio telescopes to scan the skies in the hope of picking up signals from intelligent aliens.

Unweaving the Rainbow

Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away.

As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.

mostly science is, for me, a source of living joy

Could it have been the drawing of maps that boosted our ancestors beyond the critical threshold which the other apes just failed to cross?

The mystic is content to bask in the wonder and revel in a mystery that we were not 'meant' to understand. The scientist feels the same wonder but is restless, not content; recognizes the mystery as profound, then adds, 'But we're working on it.

We are liberated by calculation and reason to visit regions of possibility that had once seemed out of bound or inhabited by dragons.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.