Quotes About Exploration

Nowadays, being an explorer is a trade, which consists not, as one might think, in discovering hitherto unknown facts after years of study, but in covering a great many miles and assembling lantern-slides or motion pictures, preferably in colour, so as to fill a hall with an audience for several days in succession.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

Enter the title) "...It takes a personal question (or moment of doubt could be another way of thinking about it) and interrogates lines of inquiry surrounding that question, historically and psychologically. After a while the answer is known but it no longer matters because the expanding life of the question is what keeps us reading. This is the kind of book that demands I slow down the closer I get to its end, preparing myself for the loss of the speaker in my world.

A c?l?tori nu pentru a ajunge, ci pentru a c?l?tori, pentru a ajunge cât mai târziu posibil, pentru a nu ajunge, dac? se poate, niciodat?.

There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Dado que los efectos de las sustancias psicodélicas son tanto terapéuticos como espirituales, muchos de los que los han experimentado se han interesado en la meditación o en seguir un camino espiritual.

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.

philosophical speculation can provide a stimulus for scientific breakthroughs.

He calmly rode on, leaving it to his horse's discretion to go which way it pleased, firmly believing that in this consisted the very essence of adventure.

As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. He

Let's get going," Towser urged. "Where do you want to go?" "Anywhere," said Towser. "Just start going and see where we end up. I have a feeling… well, a feeling-" "Yes, I know," said Fowler. For he had the feeling, too. The feeling of high destiny. A certain sense of greatness. A knowledge that somewhere off beyond the horizons lay adventure and things greater than adventure.

You are only lost if you knew where you were going.

I know you read very widely. Almost like cultural foraging.

Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.

Curiosity is the light in the darkness.

Curiosity didn't kill the cat. It emboldened the cat.

Still getting nowhere but it's the journey that matters not the hole at the end of the road.