Quotes About Exploration

Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might;

but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.

She remembered the day that she first realized she would never be able to read every book in the world," said John Clement. "She cried for days.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

The signs look better. The Father of Waters [the Mississippi River] again goes unvexed to the sea.

Why must I do what is hardest?" "Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

He invited me to a world that wasn't secret, but it was well hidden. You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world." p 224

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

The reader, knowing nothing about the 'dark continent,' filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot providing the only light, elephants stampeding outside while the good doctor recited Cicero and excised part of himself as blithely as if he were cutting for stone on the body of another.

Because Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?... Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.

One thing I know, I love to learn. I love literature. With these books I can sail the seven seas, chase a white whale . . .

But for a four-year-old, everything is sacred and ordinary.

By the time they return to the lodge in the late afternoon, they've seen so many white men—sa'ippus—and even white women, that Baby Mol no longer wants to touch them to see if the color comes off.

Poetry is a place where both grief and grace can live, where rage can be explored and examined, not simply exploited.

Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.

You can't really stop going places because you're frightened.

Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet investigated? And don't those people who aren't able to escape the bonds of their own ego think that the entire Universe, even the countless worlds of outer space, is just a backdrop for this ego? And yet it might be quite different.

These look they'll be useful on a future Quest!

In other words, pretty much every star you see in the night sky hosts at least one planet. The next time you find yourself outside at night, take a moment to stop and consider the implications of this result as you gaze at all those pinpricks of light. Every one of them hosts at least one world, and most stars will have more than one planet. Solar systems are the rule and not the exception. They're everywhere.