Quotes About Exploration

Can we actually "know" the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

I travelled among unknown men in lands beyond the sea . . .

The Truth is Out there

When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.

You should take [dogs] to hunt on different grounds at different times, in order that you may experience varieties in the chase, and that you yourself may become acquainted with the country.

The sea! The sea!

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.

I felt an urge to conquer this new village.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

Quick now, give up this idle pondering! And let's be off into the great wide world! I tell you: the fool who speculates on things is like some animal on a dry heath, led by an evil fiend in endless circles, while fine green pastures lie on every side.

In these pages, the Professor had walked beyond beaten paths, looking for truth in a place no one knows.

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one.

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it's not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

and I found myself unable to resist turning around to see whether my footsteps were following me as I made my way across the field of white.

She got off at the train station, the final stop, but in the station saw neither signs nor people. She sat on a cold bench in the waiting room, listening. She was starting to wonder if this was really a station. Based on experience she'd assumed as much, but you couldn't count on things being the way they'd always been. Perhaps this was no longer a station, and she simply hadn't heard the news.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

El mundo es de quienes van a buscarlo.