Quotes About Exploration

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.

Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.

People want to explore, we want to press our capacities to their limits, we want to appreciate what we can. But the joy of creation is something very few people get the opportunity to have in our society: artists get to have it, craftspeople have it, scientists.

I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently, without external controls.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Education should not be a matter of pouring water into a vessel [...] it should be conceived as laying out a string along which learners proceed in their own ways, exercising and improving their creative capacities and imaginations, and experiencing the joy of discovery.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

When I pass a bookshelf, I like to pick out a book from it and thumb through it. When I see a newspaper on the couch, I like to sit down with it.... Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person.

Eventually, I'll have to start breathing the air in today's New York again, but on the other hand, perhaps I won't have to. I'll find another book I love and disappear into it. Wish me luck.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

It's always seemed to me things are more exciting when you're not looking and you find them.

You almost forget there's any place else in the world.

You have to look to find. You have to ask to have the answers. You have to awaken to become.

strolled around, here to see and do

If you walked through the woods alone, in the dark, and didn't have some sense of wonder, it was hardly worth the trip.

There's a wilderness here. She knew it lived inside her.

moving around. I got my gun.

Why haven't you taken door number one already?

I couldn't let it be the only place you really know. You're meeting different people now, people who come from different places, have other views, other goals. It's an opportunity for you to explore possibilities, potential, beyond right

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