Quotes About Exploration

On the road again, past the jerkwater called Warm Springs, heading toward Tonopah on federal highway 6

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

Although Woody had studied and learned a great deal, he was well aware that there were vast

recorded everything from his observations regarding the ecology of the island to ruminations

You know, Katie, farther north in the archipelago, there are islands clustered closer together.

A lot of the time, I don't much care where I go, just so I go somewhere.

On Books: Around her, thousands of times and places, people and worlds, from Mars to Egypt to Yoknapatawpha County, were closed up in the bindings of books like the shine trapped under the tarnished veneer of a brass lamp. She could almost feel them waiting to dazzle with the first turn of a page, come alive with brilliant colors and pungent odors and delicious aromas, with laughter and sobbing and cries and whispers. Books were packaged dreams.

encounter on Aguereberry Point, Oxenwald is on the move again after less than an hour.

books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

Learning requires inefficiency.

We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.

Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere

The world is our classroom," he always said

There's something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You're free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you're free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.

Um leitor é sempre um estudante do mundo.

If you stay true to yourself, you will always remain on track, even if that track takes you off the beaten path, to places you could not possibly imagine.

The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings.

What do you not have to do in order to produce a new sound?

You are a long trail through the woods," she said. "And in the woods people prefer a shortcut." Our

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Se me debe exigir que busque la verdad, pero no que la encuentre.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

But how do you know that the whole world hasn't its meninges, or that there isn't a big or little spider living in some corner of space with threads extending everywhere?