Quotes About Exploration

Still, she heard herself say, "Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.

Sometimes you take detours to get where you need to go.

She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still

Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?" "I've no idea.

That we wouldn't be able to do. Not even if we wanted it more than anything in the world. Because once we've touched a world, it stays touched.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

love to travel, But hate to arrive

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

a person who never make a mistake, never tried anything new.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

el espacio interior del alma es igual de infinito y enigmático que el espacio cósmico exterior, y (...) tanto los cosmonautas del espacio exterior cuanto los del interior no pueden permanecer allí, sino que tienen que regresar a la tierra, a la conciencia cotidiana. además, ambos viajes exigen una buena preparación, para que puedan desarrollarse con un mínimo de peligro y convertirse en una empresa realmente enriquecedora.

LSD trips and the space flights of the astronauts are comparable in many respects. Both enterprises require very careful preparations, as far as measures for safety as well as objectives are concerned, in order to minimize dangers and to derive the most valuable results possible. The astronauts cannot remain in space nor the LSD experimenters in transcendental spheres, they have to return to earth and everyday reality, where the newly acquired experiences must be evaluated.

Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

All my life I have made an intensive study of dogs. Thirty years ago I knew everything about them that could be known, and much more. After three decades of much closer study of them and their ways, I find to my dismay that I know almost nothing at all about them. I have scarcely scratched the surface. That is not false modesty. It is sickeningly true. The sum total of my canine knowledge and experience and observation is this: Anything can happen; and usually it does.