Quotes About Exploration

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

All progress is experimental.