Quotes About Exploration

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

It will be good fun finding out what sport baby's good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same.

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.

I love driving. I've been obsessed with driving something since I was a kid.

After going to Australia, it's hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I'm obsessed with it.

I'm obsessed with great white sharks. And I want to dive into the coral of the Great Barrier Reef.

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.