Quotes About Exploration

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

There are no big stories left, just paths through the clutter and the inevitable soft landing.

getting lost is not always a bad thing

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

To hunt words is to do no trespass.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't..

Lost dreams may help you find new dreams.

Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain- it decays and disappears.

Kamers horen absolute zekerheden te zijn. De manier waarop zij in elkaar overlopen hoort eens en voor altijd vast te liggen. Een deur moet geopend kunnen worden. Niet in angst en onzekerheid omdat je geen idee hebt wat je erachter zult vinden.

To penetrate the unknown, the mind must begin with what is known already. George Orwell wrote that "We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." This book is an attempt at re-statement.

There are really only two kinds of children in the world: the ones who shy back from a wild frog, scrunch up their face, and stick their tongue out—and those who join in the chase!

One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

In whatever it is that I do, I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential.

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

it's difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time.

May you derive great benefit from engaging in this programme and its invitation to explore how you might be in a wiser and more fulfilling relationship to your 'one wild and precious life.' Jon Kabat-Zinn Boston, Massachusetts December, 2010