Quotes About Exploration

“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.

As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.

So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.

Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

After passing through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.

We sailed from Troas straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to Neapolis.

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

Sailing on from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios. The day after that we arrived at Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.

After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.

And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.

They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.

Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

From there we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. After one day, a south wind came up, and on the second day we arrived at Puteoli.