Quotes About Exploration

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

Turn left at Greenland....

I draw comfort from the notion that nature reveals its motivations only slowly; mysteries within mysteries that keep us arrogant, would-be know-alls firmly in our place.

Astronomers have recently discovered a massive amount of alcohol in our region of the Milky Way. The giant cloud of methanol measures 288 billion miles across. Although the alcohol we like to drink is grain alcohol (otherwise known as ethyl alcohol or ethanol) and methanol would poison us, the discovery goes some way to supporting the theory that the universe is here so that we can drink it.

What we need is a treasure house, not of knowledge, but of ignorance. Something that gives not answers but questions. Something that shines light, not on already garish facts, but into the dark, damp corners of ignorance. And

The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat are: 'There were four of us.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Which raises another question: How does one know when one knows? In turn this leads to more practical questions: How does one know when to continue to push an experiment? And how does one know when to abandon a clue as a false trail?

Nature answers only when she is questioned.

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

how individuals explore nature—how one does science. And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

Nevertheless, the DARPA Robotics Challenge did what it was designed to do: expose the limits of today's robotic systems.

At Stanford, he had experienced an epiphany: "I'm not really actually here to learn French, or whatever, I'm learning how to be able to learn anything, and then I can go forth and have a life. . . . I don't need the class." Learning was an end unto itself.

George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.

Ideas are where you find them

This is the only place in the whole Rocky Mountain front where you can go from the Great Plains to the summit of the mountains without snaking your way up a mountain face or going through a tunnel. This one feature had more to do with the building of the West than any other factor. I don't diminish the importance of the Oregon Trail, but here you had everything going for you. This point hasn't been made before.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Art is a process, not a product.

Mathematics should be fun.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.