Quotes About Exploration

Considero la literatura (...) como un vasto país hacia las fronteras del cual viajo, pero a las que nunca llegaré. Y he empezado demasiado tarde. Nunca me podré poner al día.

think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach.

Seekers keep seeking, and finders keep finding.

Take the smallest step into a new room, and you will gain entrée to vast worlds you could not see when you clung to the familiar. Acknowledge who you are and how you want to live, and the doors to your destiny will swing open before you.

Every journey you take leads you back to yourself.

Curiosity, after all, was what had driven mankind out from his isolated, unimportant world and across the gulf between the stars. It had also, he thoughtfully reminded himself, killed the figurative cat.

It was exciting and intellectually gratifying to speculate on what might lie waiting in the black gulfs when one was behind the business end of a telescope, quite another to do so isolated on an unpleasant little speck of a world such as this, confronted by a ship of non-human manufacture that uncomfortably resembled a growth instead of a familiar device for manipulating and overcoming the neat laws of physics.

Building better worlds

Tar-Aiym?" interrupted Kitten. "I know that word. Peot claims to be a Tar-Aiym?" But Philip ignored her.

Alan Dean Foster

The Ileenium system?

Niima: center of the galaxy, repository of manifold cultures, offering to its myriad inhabitants a never-ending succession of entertainment, education, and enjoyable distractions.

Legend says this map is unobtainable," Poe noted. "How'd you do it?

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach.

When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close.

Josef followed the small group of kids through the raised doorway onto the bridge of the St. Louis. The bridge was a narrow, curving room that stretched from one side of the ship to the other. Bright sunlight streamed in through two dozen windows, offering a panoramic view of the vast blue-green Atlantic and wispy white clouds. Throughout the wood-decked room were metal benches with maps and rulers on them, and the walls were dotted with mysterious gauges and meters made of shining brass.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. Antoine de Saint-Exupery A

we will never be faithful in the biblical sense if we never move from home base.

in a house where he knew all the carpets as territories, castles, jumping squares, there was this other room with a carpet he had never jumped on.

To read old books is to get an education in possibility for next to nothing.

He who earnestly and persistently seeks, shall find! To him who knocks hard, the door will be opened.

a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a final one.

Einstein once wrote, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.