Quotes About Exploration

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. —C. G. Jung

An open-ended question invites curiosity.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

I checked into the quiet little room on the fifth floor of the good old Stadthotel with two pairs of socks and two large bottles of slivovitz for unseen eventualities.

Hey, Jack, which way to Mecca?

Filipinler ilk ke?fedilen topraklar aras?nda yer al?yordu.

If people would make an effort to learn about the wonders that did exist, he thought, their appetite for dragons would be well satisfied.

You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.

We decide to move far enough to the edge of the culture to see it clearly. What is the norm and normal does not serve us well. Many of us have tried hard to live a "normal" life, and how is it going?

Understand that the task is to shift the demand for the right answer to the search for the right question.

Best way to survive in the wilderness is stay warm and dry and fed and don't get lost, but you make those arrangements before you go there.

I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.

I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it

To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn't mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

To explore strange new worlds ... and assimilate them. To seek out new life forms ... and new civilizations ... and assimilate them. To boldly go where no Borg has gone before ... and assimilate them.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars.

If you are trying to be inventive and come up with lots of interesting new ideas, it's usually the worst thing in the world if someone comes along and starts being critical. Thus, the power of brainstorming: no one is allowed to criticize any idea or suggestion that is offered—no matter how stupid, impractical, or useless it seems. You can't get the good ones and the fruitful interaction among the odd ones unless you welcome the terrible ones.

I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part—which is more than enough to keep us busy.

The need to explain Jesus as both surprise ending and deeply connected to Israel's story drove the Gospel writers to do some creative reading. Sticking to what the Bible says wasn't their goal. Talking about Jesus was.

I was drawn to authors and others who were explicitly outside of the Christian tradition . . . Such as Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth), Robert Bly (Iron John), Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), and Sam Keen (Fire in the Belly). I also re-read Viktor Frankl's classic Man's Search for Meaning (which my daughter Lizz and my wife Sue also read while Lizz was away).