Quotes About Exploration

Even when he'd arrived he'd had restless eyes, eyes that were always looking about as if he might notice some place he'd rather be and head out for it immediately.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since

Great ships cannot sail in narrow rivers and shallow waters, neither can minds truly great with the knowledge of God and heaven, find room enough in the creature to turn and expatiate[12] themselves in.

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

His early researches were pursued partly in the spirit of a young gentleman's entertainment, which happened to be science instead of fighting or politics or gambling.

Honey, you are a baby in this world and don't know how to howl yet.

A book is like a deck of windows

For those who chose to build off modernism, fiction became a field for radical explorations in narrative form and voice. Writers set out in search of new techniques that could serve as sources of discovery and offer unique opportunities for amplifying the potential meaning of their subject matter.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

We would rather explore the far side of the moon or the bottom of the ocean than the hidden depths within ourselves.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

This report inflamed my mind to such a degree that I could not rest by night or day for dreaming golden dreams, and considering how to get to that rich district, unknown to civilized men.