Quotes About Exploration

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)

Long before we have reached the last steps of the argument leading to our theory, we are already in Fairyland

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

The first thing to do is carry a notebook and during quiet times or as the thought occurs to you, compile a list of anything that really interests you. In other words, write a list of subjects which fascinate you without regard to photography.

subject matter you select must: a) fire your enthusiasm and curiosity for at least the length of time it will take to produce a meaningful body of work; b) lend itself to images, as opposed to words and; c) remain continuously accessible so that you can return time and again to the same topic whenever you wish or have time. I

The photographer must have intense curiosity, not just a passing visual interest, in the theme of the pictures. This curiosity leads to intense examination, reading, talking, research and many, many failed attempts over a long period of time. I'm

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Figure 35 Princess Elisabeth and René Descartes in Minecraft.

Technophilosophy is a combination of (1) asking philosophical questions about technology and (2) using technology to help answer traditional philosophical questions.

This recognition – that real statistics is about exploring the unknown, not about tedious arithmetic manipulation – is central to an appreciation of the modern discipline.

This word would define the sensation of having worked and traveled hard, praying for good snow and fresh tracks, and then finding that weather, snow, timing, and camaraderie can come together into a single element.

in learning how to imagine x, you gain abilities; later you have all the relevant imaginative abilities you had before, and more besides. and you notice, a priori, relationships of coherence or incoherence between attitudes that might figure in the realisation of x; later you are aware of all that you had noticed before, and more besides. and you think of new questions to explore in your imagining...and later you have in mind all the questions you had thought of before, and more besides.

Reading is, by its nature, a strategy for displacement, for pulling back from the circumstances of the present and immersing in the textures of a different life.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time,

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IS SCIENCE FICTION ABOUT TO GO BLIND?" asks _Popular Science_ associate editor Gregory Mone, apparently worried that this may be a symptom of too much fondling of one's Singularity.

Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.

I headed up to the twentieth arrondissement, to the highly regarded Brûlerie Jordain. (I needed little encouragement to go there, since it's conveniently located just next door to Boulangerie 140, whose brick oven turns out some of the best bread in Paris.)

On the rue Rambuteau, a street that cuts through the Marais, is Pain de Sucre. It's not a drugstore, but arguably

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.