Quotes About Exploration

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.

Young children also play to learn about the world. Why aren't we amused when our toddler drops her food off the high chair for the hundredth time? Because we know about gravity (and we have to clean it up). She, however, is extremely amused, because everything about the universe is new and interesting and open to playful discovery.

Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of? Whether or not we accomplish our original intention becomes unimportant.

personal confusion, search, and self-interrogation are more important than any answers could ever be.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN

have lifted the window-well grate and climbed through the broken window to the basement and still leave a

A library is not to be read completely, but to be consulted. Here there are books which are around just in case. I have read all my life, but there are many things about which I know nothing. What's important is not to have everything in one's head but to know where to find it. The difference between someone who's vain and someone who's wise is that the vain man only appreciates what he already knows, and the wise man searches for what he doesn't yet know.

In the case of the SF genre, the basic rule was, is, and always has been: Come up with a startling idea and set it loose in astonishing ways in a future world.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.

Dreams take short cuts.

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

When it comes to 'Glee ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

Every healthy person hungers. To know things for himself. Form his own questions, test his own ideas. Funny how a person's own family is often the first to punish him for that.

Both of them had this ability to—well, not invent products—but discover products. Both of them said these products have always existed, it's just that no one has ever seen them before. We were the ones who discovered them. The Polaroid camera always existed and the Macintosh always existed. It's a matter of discovery

The lead and his two deputies will also pore through the pages trying to find ways to integrate new ideas.

being excited about being wrong because that means you've discovered something new.