Quotes About Exploration

Welcome aboard the way to Ixion: island of ever-night, ever-youth and never-sleep. Burn bright!' He gave her a mock salute and disappeared along the long, shadowy deck towards the bridge, leaving her shivering over what she had done. At least the pain from her strip had ebbed, as if his icy hands had robbed it of heat. She could breathe again.

Marianne Hering

How did Mr. Tesla get inside the Imagination Station?

Captain Myles Standish

Därer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this

Like strangler figs choking a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist, not one of us, in taking what we pleased—in colonizing as the saying is—has been a synonym for mercy.

Lo necesario es caminar, caminar siempre, no estacionarse jamas; ser duenos del valle, de la planicies, de la sierra y de todo lo que la vista abarca.

I don't want to be like trees that put down roots in one place," he wrote. "I'd rather be like the wind, the water, the sun—like all those things that are forever in perpetual motion.

Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization." There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

Another thing to study," Natalie said, amused. "Will you ever be done?" I smiled into the sun, one hand holding my bonnet against the firm grasp of the wind. "I should hope not. How dreadfully tedious that would be.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me...

Nada de lo que existe en la vida es para ser temido, sino para ser entendido. Ahora es tiempo de entender más, para que podamos temer menos

Se menos curioso acerca de las personas y más curioso acerca de las ideas.

Hunting God is a great adventure.

As David Deutsch says, "Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge".

you'll never grow beyond your current circumstances if you're closed off to everything except what you currently know.

it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement.

Great results begin with great questions.

C — Curiosity. What's happening here? What are the facts?