Quotes About Exploration

The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.

Above all, Leonardo's relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer.

Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. It was great, he recalled. I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the whole field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat.

You always have to keep pushing to innovate.

So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, "You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder years, or to let our children do so.

he was more comfortable exploring practical thoughts and real-life situations than metaphysical abstractions or deductive proofs. The

He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that." Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts.

Seek knowledge for its own sake. Not all knowledge needs to be useful. Sometimes it should be pursued for pure pleasure. Leonardo did not need to know how heart valves work to paint the Mona Lisa, nor did he need to figure out how fossils got to the top of mountains to produce Virgin of the Rocks. By allowing himself to be driven by pure curiosity, he got to explore more horizons and see more connections than anyone else of his era.

how the ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.

I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

The fifteenth century of Leonardo and Columbus and Gutenberg was a time of invention, exploration, and the spread of knowledge by new technologies. In short, it was a time like our own. That is why we have much to learn from Leonardo. His ability to combine art, science, technology, the humanities, and imagination remains an enduring recipe for creativity. So, too, was his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical.

service, which would relay messages to his mother. Ron Wayne drew a logo, using the ornate line-drawing style of Victorian illustrated fiction, that featured Newton sitting under a tree framed by a quote from Wordsworth: "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." It was a rather odd motto, one that fit Wayne's self-image more than Apple Computer. Perhaps

El viaje es la recompensa

school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a

Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space—I

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?

Sea curioso, infatigablemente curioso.

Having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase.

I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer.

Busque el conocimiento por sí mismo.

Be open to mystery. Not everything needs sharp lines.

markets rather than merely chasing old ones.