Quotes About Exploration

A dark-windowed diesel train burst out of the building, close enough to make the bus shake. It helter-skeltered downward into the earth. "Where's it going?" Zanna said. "Crossing the Odd, to some of the other abcities," Jones said. "If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless…It's a terminus.

Be a dilettante, a sciolist, a swindler … So long as you return me to the sky, Grimnebulin.

The assumption – and I think it's correct – is that the technology is going to happen anyway, so the best thing is to get it distributed as quickly as possible and see what people use it for, and keep an eye out for any problems that arise.

I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was like.

Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Logic takes you from A to B, but imagination takes you everywhere.

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Curiosity = Wonder + Awe

Mystery is created not from an unexpected moment but from an unexpected journey. We know where we're headed—we want to solve the mystery—but we're not sure how we'll get there.

Curiosity, he says, happens when we feel a gap in our knowledge.

Good metaphors are "generative."13 The psychologist Donald Schon introduced this term to describe metaphors that generate "new perceptions, explanations, and inventions." Many

My father wanted us to try everything and feel free to push the envelope. His attitude taught me to define failure as not trying something I want to do instead of not achieving the right outcome.

when you seek out situations where you might fail, failure loses some of its menace. You've been inoculated against it.

In times of change, you may not know what options are available. And this uncertainty leads to decision paralysis as surely as a table with 24 jams.

Trip over the truth. Frey's activity allowed the vestry to discover insights for themselves

it was like "peeling an onion" where we were going just slightly deeper on each exchange and when finished, we had moved quite a bit.

Top management challenged employees to be on the lookout for potential innovations—