Quotes About Exploration

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.

No one has ever been able to successfully map the coast of sorrow. It is not because of the jagged reefs, the treacherous fogs and shoals. Or because it's prone to ferocious storms and deadly tides that can eat a ship as easily as it can a man in the water. No one has ever been able to map the coast of sorrow because so much of it is invisible.

C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri

If you sleep, if you dream, you must accept your dreams. It's the role of the dreamer.

Volare non è mai pericoloso, Michael Davvero? Davvero. E' schiantarsi che è pericoloso

Everyone thinks they have strict limits," she said, "until they cross them.

Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.

He was like a person in two dimensions seeking freedom in a third.

Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

The whole state of Maine is unlocked.

I'm forever writing around a void—I guess I don't have to explain to you why that is.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

What if I never stop inventing?

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting your penis in their mouth.

An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out, was a profusion of geography, of atmosphere, of full empty air.