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Quotes About Exploration

Estas son la ma
~ Hector Tobar
Go, fly, swim, bound descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you are, whom you will be, leave yourself, shrug off the old lies, dare what you don't dare, it is there that you will take pleasure . . . and rejoice, in the terror, follow it where you're afraid to go, go ahead, take the plunge, you're on the right trail.
~ Helene Cixous
One has to go away, leave the self. How far must one not arrive in order to write, how far must one wander and wear out and have pleasure? One must walk as far as the night. One's own night. Walking through the self toward dark.
~ Helene Cixous
So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I explore I bring to light.
~ Helene Cixous
To us this ladder has a descending movement, because the ascent , which evokes effort and difficulty, is toward the bottom. I say ascent downward because we ordinarily believe the descent is easy. The writers I love are descenders , explorers of the lowest and deepest.
~ Helene Cixous
I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.
~ H. Beam Piper
Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I'd like to know why he shouldn't come in and look around.
~ H. Beam Piper
went across the more civilized Third
~ H. Beam Piper
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
~ H. G. Wells
Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man… unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
~ H. G. Wells
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ H. Jackson Brown (Jr.)
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
~ H. Jackson Brown (Jr.)
Every once in a while, take the scenic route.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I've learned to keep looking ahead. There are still so many good books to read, sunsets to see, friends to visit, and old dogs to take walks with.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
~ H. Jackson Browne
WHERE CHAOS BEGINS, classical science stops.
~ James Gleick
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. Every child is observer, analyst, and taxonomist, building a mental life through a sequence of intellectual revolutions, constructing theories and promptly shedding them when they no longer fit. The unfamiliar and the strange—these are the domain of all children and scientists.
~ James Gleick
To find the new x, the rule was to take the old y, add 1 and subtract 1.4 times the old x squared. To find the new y, multiply 0.3 by the old x. That is: xnew = y +1 – 1.4x2 and ynew = 0.3x. Hénon picked a starting point more or less at random, took his calculator and started plotting new points, one after another, until he had plotted thousands.
~ James Gleick
As an element in the world revealed by computer exploration, the strange attractor began as a mere possibility, marking a place where many great imaginations in the twentieth century had failed to go. Soon, when scientists saw what computers had to show, it seemed like a face they had been seeing everywhere, in the music of turbulent flows or in clouds scattered like veils across the sky. Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.
~ James Gleick
He had the cast of mind that often produces cranks and misfits: a willingness, even eagerness, to consider silly ideas and plunge down wrong alleys.
~ James Gleick
He was a wanderer between two worlds and must ever wander...
~ James Hilton
His was one of those well-groomed reputations that get the most out of everything; any unusual holiday acquires the character of an exploration, and though the explorer takes care to do nothing really original, the public does not know this
~ James Hilton