Quotes About Exploration

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. —LINUS PAULING

Today, I'll simply wander. Head off in one direction or another and keep walking. Until I feel like stopping.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

there's a common trick nature plays on its would-be investigators: resemblance, the human urge to map the unknown onto the already known, can be a snare. Just because something looks like something else doesn't mean that the backstory for both must be the same. Rocks scattered across the sky may appear to be a rubble field left behind by an explosion…but unless you stop to think how else you might get there, you rely on assumptions not in evidence.

Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.

Survival is a two-way street. Once we settle ourselves off-world, we can blow up this planet from outer space. It's the only way to be sure its stench will not follow us. Let

I had fled that place in hopes of finding another that had been founded upon different principles and operated under a different order. But there was no such place, or none that I could find. It seemed the only course of action left to me was to make an end of it.

The anchor heaves, the ship swings free The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

To faculty everywhere, the lesson was obvious: the campus of a top university is not a place for intellectual exploration. It is a luxury home, rented for four to six years, nine months at a time, by children of the elite who may shout at faculty as if they're berating clumsy maids in a colonial mansion. A

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.

do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture called the Creation.

Tüm kâinat? düzenleyen ve yöneten ilkeler gibi her bilimin de sabit ve deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez ilkeleri vard?r. Ä°nsan bu ilkeleri yapamaz ancak onlar? keÅŸfedebilir.

In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand might make, but the Scripture called the Creation.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Shall I project a world?

The ocean may be large, but guess what space is larger.

Ninety-five degrees in the shade characterizes the weather these days, and I generally make a few miles in the gloaming - not, of course, because it is cooler, but because the "gloaming" is so delightfully romantic.