Quotes About Exploration

To realize the body's potential for flow is relatively easy. It does not require special talents or great expenditures of money. Everyone can greatly improve the quality of life by exploring one or more previously ignored dimensions of physical abilities. Of

When people are asked to choose from a list the best description of how they feel when doing whatever they enjoy doing most—reading, climbing mountains, playing chess, whatever—the answer most frequently chosen is "designing or discovering something new.

As long as one strives to become a gourmet or a connoisseur of wines because it is the "in" thing to do, striving to master an externally imposed challenge, then taste may easily turn sour. But a cultivated palate provides many opportunities for flow if one approaches eating—and cooking—in a spirit of adventure and curiosity, exploring the potentials of food for the sake of the experience rather than as a showcase for one's expertise.

The body is like a probe full of sensitive devices that tries to obtain what information it can from the awesome reaches of space.

One cannot enjoy doing the same thing at the same level for long. We grow either bored or frustrated; and then the desire to enjoy ourselves again pushes us to stretch our skills, or discover new opportunities for using them.

For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.

Even the most highly respected physicist, artist, or politician becomes a hollow bore and ceases to enjoy life if all he can interest himself in is his limited role in the universe. 4.

Now, people don't like this explanation. They say, "What? You think of junk?" I say, "Yup. You must." You cannot a priori think only of good ideas.

Albert Einstein once wrote that art and science are two of the greatest forms of escape from reality that humans have devised.

To achieve creativity in an existing domain, there must be surplus attention available.

Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present.

The rest of society often views these new ideas as fantasies without relevance to current reality. And they are right. But the whole point of art and science is to go beyond what we now consider real, and create a new reality.

If one reads the biographies of physicists like Bohr, Heisenberg, Chandrashekhar, and Bethe, one gets the impression that without hikes in the mountains and the vision of night skies their science would not have amounted to much.

If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?

The galaxy's huge, but humanity's still only settled pinpricks of it," Rourke replied, turning and leading the way towards the cargo bay once more, "and people who've made a career of doing the sort of things we do . . . well, we tend to cluster around the same pinpricks. It's the nature of the business.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

After 'cat', Lilah next learned 'flower'. Flowers (scrunch up nose as if sniffing) were everywhere, first only outside on plants, but soon she generalized to flowers on her clothes or her shoes, or in pictures in books and magazines. I wanted to hook up wires and do experiments and comparisons and studies to understand it all. 'You want to do what?' Diane would say. But really, who wouldn't?

But figuring out where to point the telescopes in the first place and why you're doing it is much harder.

EDUCATION, Education, Your Education Never Stops.

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

On into the void he flies, unafraid. There is nothing in mere absence that can cow him. Or loneliness. Or the lack of maps and charts. For he is his own path. And he sees by his own light. We watch him from a great distance. From a vantage point no less subjective, no less absolute. And so it's hard to tell whether he imposes himself on the emptiness, or becomes it.

Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway.

In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.