Quotes About Exploration

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

a lo largo de toda la juventud te estuve buscando sin saber lo que estaba buscando

Robert Boyle, the English scientist largely responsible for the creation of the modern discipline of chemistry, interviewed miners in the 1670s in an attempt to discover whether the men had met with any "subterraneous demons . . . in what shape and manner they appear; what they portend and what they do.

I went out to the hazel wood because a fire was in my head cut and peeled a hazel wand and hooked a berry to a thread and when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out I dropped the berry in a stream, and caught a little silver trout.... (Song of Wandering Aengus)

I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.

turning the pages patiently in search of meanings

Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.

In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

What do you say to taking chances?

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.