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Quotes About Exploration

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
~ Bertrand Russell
What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.
~ Joseph M. Juran
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.
~ William Harvey
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
~ Louis de Broglie
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
~ Alvin Toffler
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
~ Maria Mitchell
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~ Arthur Machen
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.
~ Joey Comeau
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~ Augustus Hare
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
~ M. C. Escher
We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.
~ Marcelo Gleiser
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
~ E. O. Wilson
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
~ Marilyn French
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.
~ Edgar Mitchell
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
la curiosidad no afecta a los muertos, no se vierte hacia ellos pese a tantas películas y novelas y biografías que justamente indagan eso, las vidas delos que ya no viven
~ Javier Marías
Cuán necesario es el aburrimiento previo, para que la curiosidad
~ Javier Marías
A las doce y cuatro minutos de la noche del 13 de mayo de 1804, cinco días después de haber zarpado de La Guaira, el San Luis navegaba a la altura de Barranquilla cuando Salvany,
~ Javier Moro
Decidieron que Grajales y Bolaños se dirigirían a Neiva y La Plata por la costa, mientras que el practicante Lozano acompañaría a Salvany rumbo a Cartago, Trujillo y la provincia de Chocó. Cada grupo llevaba seis niños, indígenas o mestizos cuya edad no superaba los diez años.
~ Javier Moro
En todo largo periplo hay un momento en que percibes que el viaje ha comenzado de veras, y no suele suceder al principio, sino cuando sientes que tu alma ha escapado definitivamente a la rutina, que ha huido de los hábitos de la vida cotidiana, de tu patria, en suma.
~ Javier Reverte
We have all become wayfarers and travellers marching on and on ....Yet,for those who can adapt themselves to this continuous journeying,there is no regret and they would not have it otherwise.A reture to the dull uneventful past is unthinkable.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Step #3: Acknowledge Jobs and Industries That Interest You
~ Jay A. Block