Quotes About Exploration

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.