Quotes About Exploration

living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.

create parameters, set it off, see what happens'

UNDER CONSTRAINTS, CREATIVITY THRIVES

But we radically improve our skills when we are forced outside of our comfort zone and asked to solve problems that seem foreign, or use tools or methods that seem alien to us. You

Dev wondered if that was the job of fiction, to test-drive the impossible, to loosen our grip on conventional reality. He guessed that's probably what fiction writers would claim—if there were any left, that is.

Where she was going, she had no idea. But the fact that she could still walk suggested she should. And so she did.

Todos en algún instante de nuestra vida necesitamos regresar a la caverna.

Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age

The marvelous intricacy of the rules they'd established, the processes they'd set into motion, the miracles of subtlety and beauty, were enough to make anyone drunk with admiration and awe, and how could God, having given man the ability to reason and understand, not want him to explore all the beautiful marvels with which He'd surrounded him? She

And as he headed around the curve of the ship toward the bridge, he wondered distantly if he would go down in history as a footnote, or as the prime offender in a major interstellar incident.

small craft had yet returned, so

Hoagland's book, The Monuments of Mars.

Salter's book Life with a Cosmos Clearance

There's no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.

Sometimes she wondered if there could be a limit to these twilight voyages, if some day she would stray too far and there would be no bridge nor bell to bring her home.

You want to know the problem with going somewhere no one's ever been? It takes so damned long to get there.

Have you traveled through time?" "Yes," Worf said, "but I do not recommend it.

Set phasers to stun, and ... we shall see what happens.

No matter how fast our ships can go, space is still very big.

I run because if I didn't, I'd be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.

Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.