Quotes About Exploration

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

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My brain is open.

I believe I have discovered something that I suspect characterizes religious experience in whatever tradition or historical context: the more deeply one enters into the core experience that animates one's own tradition, the more broadly one is enabled and perhaps moved to enter into the experiences of other traditions. The more deeply one sinks into one's own religious truth, the more broadly one can appreciate and learn from other truths.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of judgement.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.

Absolute scientific truth was like the speed of light, a value which could be approached but never reached.

When people go looking for something, they often find something else.

J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure!

The amount of footprints underneath indicates how far they are too, and the closer you get to the Pokémon, the number of footprints will go down.

We weren't sure we located the Gabriella until this spring." Barrett tapped a black metal box resting

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Matamoros, Mexico? Tegucigalpa, Honduras?

We sit restless, on a fickle edge always looking for something new yet wary of anything different.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

to escape the deepening grip of multinational corporations and the Coca-colonisation of the weird. Out here, you could still have your mind eaten by an alien phantom, stumble upon a lost city, or discover a fraying thread of some kind of weird quantumised metamaterial that could kick-start a new industrial revolution and make you a billionaire. Out here were places not yet mapped. Old dreams and deep mysteries. A world wild and strange and still mostly unknown.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?