Quotes About Exploration

When you leave New York, you are merely camping out.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry touches upon the entire spectrum, from lost to found — and sometimes back again.

This is the first convention of the Space Age — when a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Quoter's curiosity is a disease whose only cure is more reading.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Life begins at retirement.

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild-goose chase; that is what wild geese are made for.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science...

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

It's easy to get lost when the map is in your hand and not in your heart.

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed in on Google Earth really fast.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Der Blick, des Forschers fand nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wünschte.