Quotes About Exploration

dans une bibliothèque] Sentiment que tout était écrit, décrit, expliqué, mais surtout "révélé", pour peu qu'on sût trouver le bon chemin de mots. Sentiment de pouvoir, au hasard, ouvrir l'une des millions de portes du monde.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Research is the highest form of adoration

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.

There is always something new out of Africa.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Another way to characterize it is that our chances of finding a habitable planet are roughly equal to the chances that Christopher Columbus, sailing east, would accidentally discover the Americas. It's not a question of if. It's only a question of when.

At IndieBio, I quickly learned there was no such master plan— but more than that, it was wrong to think this period we face could be planned out at all. It was fast, blind, and dense. Nobody is an expert in the unknown. Planning wasn't the way to solve it. Experimenting was. There is no plan, just a way.

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...

The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?

Nonsense," said another voice-Dr. Rust. "We're librarians. When we don't find what we're looking for in the first place we look, we don't give up. We keep looking.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

They talked business for half an hour. (Centuries passed beyond the hull.)

Orang bilang, apa yang ada di depan manusia hanya jarak. Dan batasnya adalah ufuk. Begitu jarak ditempuh sang ufuk menjauh.

But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

She is like a meteor shooting off by itself, traveling through space, knowing no bounds, who knows ehere eventually to come to ground, on another planet or back on our earth again, or to disappear in the infinity of nature.