Quotes About Exploration

isn't that great!' But the

wisdom of the outdoors, until

I need a road." Isazi shrugged. "The one to the north is no longer or harder than the road to the south.

I wonder how Blackwater Park will look in the daytime? I don't altogether like it by night.

We may make contact with ambitious species on other planets or stars; soon thereafter there will be interplanetary war. Then, and only then, will we of this earth be one.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that a young country has no use for philosophers. It was characteristic of him that he made parallel lists of reasons for and against the move, giving each reason a numerical value. The sums being 110 points for remaining in England and 301 for going, he remained.

We are like a man who goes round a castle seeking in vain for an entrance, and sometimes sketching the facades. If we can ferret out the ultimate nature of our own minds we shall perhaps have the key to the external world. 

For as no perfect view of a country can be taken from a flat; so it is impossible to discover the remote and deep parts of any science by standing upon the level of the same science, or without ascending to a higher.

He studied the stars, and guided his caravans across mountains and deserts by tracing his route in the sky.

The Fijians, however, complained that the flesh of the whites was too salty and tough, and that a European sailor was hardly fit to eat; a Polynesian tasted better.

To the Romans, the Greeks and the Jews Sumeria was unknown.

Every topic begins as philosophy, turns to science and ends as art.

Quando tutto ti ricorda qualche altro posto è segno che stai viaggiando da troppo tempo.

How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.

If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

In the universe there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between there are doors.

we think we understand all about the human body but actually we know very little.

This was an adventure, I told myself, an intriguing quest, and one that I would regret not seeing through at least a little further along the way.

Vuja dé is the flip side of that—looking at a familiar situation (an industry you've worked in for decades, products you've worked on for years) as if you've never seen it before, and, with that fresh line of sight, developing a distinctive point of view on the future.

A new music is a new mind.

Dissonance (if you are interested) leads to discovery