Quotes About Exploration

La sorpresa es el móvil de cada descubrimiento.

As you're reading through code, you will find things that you would have never done. You will find things you might have never even thought of. Why? What was the developer thinking? What were his or her motivations? You can even learn from bad code with this kind of critical, self-aware exploration of an existing work.

WE WERE IN THE REGION OF YARLUNG and went to the Shelgrak crystal cave, which

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

You Hear Some Strange Noises Out Your Window You Should Probably Look And See What It Is

Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

We (that's my ship and I) took off rather suddenly. We had a report somewhere around 4 o'clock in the afternoon before that the weather would be fine, so we thought we would try it.

Wheter outwardly or inwardly, wheter in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

across the Staked Plains to Ft. Sumner,

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

Passage into new forms, overleaping the bars of time and space, reversal of the laws of inanimate intelligent existence, had been mine to perform and to witness.

Voltaire, Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes never had a chance to speak with these men or even know of their existence—and here, at last, we begin to appreciate the enormity of the calamity, for the distintegration of native America was a loss not just to those societies but to the human enterprise as a whole.

On Columbus's later voyages, his crew happily accepted godhood—until the Taino began empirically testing their divinity by forcing their heads underwater for long periods to see if the Spanish were, as gods should be, immortal.

Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colón disputed both facts.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown

Mystery of love is like digging water: everything closes. (Mystère de l'amour est comme - Creuser l'eau : tout se referme)