Quotes About Exploration

Thus, although we are mere sojourners on the surface of the planet, chained to a mere point in space, enduring but for a moment of time, the human mind is not only enabled to number worlds beyond the unassisted ken of mortal eye, but to trace the events of indefinite ages before the creation of our race, and is not even withheld from penetrating into the dark secrets of the ocean, or the solid globe.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

Do you ever feel like running away?" "Of course... Sometimes I feel like I want to run away from everything." "I remember having that feeling once when I was at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm... I climbed over the fence, but I was still in the world!

What I'm trying to say, and not doing a very good job at, is...will you ride the river with me?

when I looked up, the world got a lot bigger. That's one thing Unc did from the start—he made the world a lot bigger.

drove us the long way to Apalachicola

When in doubt, move, even if it's in the wrong direction.

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.

To demand to know is the obligation of every American. That it occasionally leads people down blind alleys, or off to Atlantis, is to be celebrated, not scorned.

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he said, looking at his aunt, "from star to star.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

To appreciate a new and difficult style, as I have said, takes an act of will, a decision to experience it again.

Do not block the way of inquiry.

Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton 's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

Reading is like a journey to a new place

there is a branch of science called geobotany. It is a way of looking for minerals by knowing that certain plants will only grow in their presence or absence, and sometimes by knowing that the plants themselves concentrate particular minerals in their leaves and stems.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.

You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.