Quotes About Exploration

Children are the only courageous philosophers. And courageous philosophers are invariably children. One ought always to ask like children, 'what further?' and 'what for?

And, like children, you will swallow without protest everything bitter I shall give you only when it is carefully coated with the thick syrup of adventure.

Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

For years I have had the belief that all my questions will be answered by the books I'm reading. Books, however, only lead to other books.

start each day with that i don't understand

He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. 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.

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 he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

education is not simply preparation for life; education is life itself.

It is precisely the lack of explicit objectives determined by external parties that fascinates children.

You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.

The secret to wisdom is curiosity.

Even on a black and empty street. If we go together, we might one day find something like the moon thats floats in the darkness.

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

The idea is to carry everything on your back, forget your troubles, and let tomorrow take care of itself.

We are all born artists. … Almost everything kids do is art.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better.

La infancia es un periodo en el que el tiempo y el espacio se mezclan.

go-go hall on my way home from school.

Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.