Quotes About Exploration

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

Seek and ye shall find.

When swimming into a dark tunnel, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. Your only choice is to swim forward into the unknown Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and pray for an exit.

Abandon the search for God... instead, take yourself as the starting place.

maybe the questions are more powerful than the answers.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books

The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past

When swimming into a dark tunnel, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. Your only choice is to swim forward into the unknown … and pray for an exit. Langdon

Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas.

By the end of the eleventh century," Edmond said, "the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad. Then, almost overnight, that changed. A brilliant scholar named Hamid al-Ghazali—now considered one of the most influential Muslims in history—wrote a series of persuasive texts questioning the logic of Plato and Aristotle and declaring mathematics to be 'the philosophy of the devil.

Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what Edmond had discovered. At first glance, the painting's subject seemed far too primitive to hint at an advanced scientific discovery. Its broad uneven brushstrokes depicted a Tahitian jungle inhabited by an assortment of native Tahitians and animals.

When swimming into a dark tunnel, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. Your only choice is to swim forward into the unknown … and pray for an exit.

Kada plivaš kroz mra?an tunel, do?e trenutak kada više nema nazad, jer nemaš dovoljno vazduha za povratak. Jedini izbor koji imaš je da nastaviš da plivaš u nepoznato... i moliš se da izlaz ipak postoji.

He turned now to his left

Corky, tu as trop l'habitude de regarder vers le haut. Observe un peu le bas. Il y a un environnement à faible gravité, sur terre, et en abondance. Et il est là depuis les temps préhistoriques.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson—appearing in an old clip from the Cosmos television show—declared good-naturedly, "If a Creator designed our universe to support life, he did a terrible job. In the vast, vast majority of the cosmos, life would die instantly from lack of atmosphere, gamma-ray bursts, deadly pulsars, and crushing gravitational fields. Believe me, the universe is no Garden of Eden.

This morning, as Langdon raised his eyes skyward to the famed red-tiled dome that had been an architectural feat of its era, he recalled the time he had foolishly decided to ascend the dome only to discover that its narrow, tourist-crammed staircases were as distressing as any of the claustrophobic spaces he'd ever encountered.

LA VERDADERA CIENCIA DESCUBRE A DIOS DETRÁS DE CADA PUERTA. PAPA PÍO XII

A decir verdad, fueron los osos polares los que bautizaron el Ártico. Arktos es «oso» en griego.

En la Antártida no hay osos polares —continuó Tolland—. De manera que la llamaron Anti-arktos.

Viver no mundo sem tomar consciência do significado do mundo é como vagar por uma imensa biblioteca sem tocar os livros.