Quotes About Exploration

childlike intuition, free play, and body movement were integral to his creative thinking.

Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

I traveled among unknown men,In lands beyond the sea;Nor, England! did I know till thenWhat love I bore to thee.

Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day,Festively she puts forth in trim array.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy

pick up Trigger and see where this new

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.

Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In

a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that's knew—I had to follow that path.

Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

By snowshoe, canoe, or dog team, they moved through those woods, rivers, and lakes. It was not a life circumscribed by a clock, stamp, fence, or road.

Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!

Sunshine is my quest.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Tennessee to places like Corinth, Nashville, and even Shiloh, which at that point he'd never heard of.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Our element is unending immaturity.

Well, anybody who cannot embrace the power of Internet is just limiting themselves.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know