Quotes About Exploration

There is nothing to be seen beyond our horizons, but other landscapes and still other horizons, and nothing inside the thing but other smaller things.

The thing can never be separated from someone who perceives it; nor can it ever actually be in itself because its articulations are the very ones of our existence, and because it is posited at the end of a gaze or at the conclusion of a sensory exploration that invests it with humanity. To taking up or the achievement by us of an alien intention or inversely the accomplishment beyond our perceptual powers and as a coupling of our body wit the things.

Expression is like a step taken in the fog--no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.

The swimmer unknowingly skims over a whole buried universe which would frighten him if he looked at it with undersea goggles.

All writers who are unprejudiced and open to the future know what they do not want better than what they do want.

What one too deliberately seeks, he does not find; and he who on the contrary has in his meditative life known how to tap its spontaneous source never lacks for ideas and values.

And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.

I just read them for fun." "Dictionaries?" "Yes." "That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful." "Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The same meaning as awesome. I learned that from a dictionary." He blinked. "See?" She said. "Fun.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.

But I believe that there is no philosophical highroad in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Never be afraid to zigzag. Avoid wailing yourself into a category: "I'm a secretary...I'm in the computer business...I'm a Detroiter." You never know which direction your lucky breaks may come from. When they drift into reach, grab them.

On 4 January 1875 he filed his first Times despatch, with the dateline: 'Under the Old Tree of Aryah, Tropical Africa'.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss.

I took the lake between my legs.