Quotes About Exploration

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Einstein said, "A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Vu ja de means seeing old things that are inside and outside the company in new ways.

During the early stages of a project, don't study how the task has been approached in the company, industry, field, or region where you are working.

to find a few ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't.

innovative companies need a wide range of ideas and that success requires a high failure rate.

As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.

The student of story collections finds himself adrift on an ocean of stories, an ocean which is boundless, deep and ceaselessly in motion.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is asking you to call, Drive your Chevrolet through the USA, America's the greatest land of all. [ Quoting The Dinah Shore Chevy Show theme song, c. 1952, in an epigraph to Chapter 11: See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above. ]

Pioneers in the development of particular products and industries have been described by Schumpeter as "innovators," those "individuals who are daring, speculative, restless, imaginative and, more pertinently, eager to exploit new inventions.

He said to them, "Come and see . . ." – John 1:39

Scientists aren't responsible for the facts that are in nature. It's their job to find the facts. There's no sin connected with it—no morals. If anyone should have a sense of sin, it's God. He put the facts there. —Percy Bridgman

and Jess was looking through his spyglass. He scanned the wooded hillsides around the little

Jess rode at a moderate gallop along the trail. It wasn't long before he saw the huge house off to the side of it. He halted his

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading. She always kept a book in her room and carried another in her pocket.

A poem is an empty house. [Stranger, you must enter, then knock.]

In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.

In the United States, of the ten million certified scuba divers, it is likely that only a few hundred dive deep for shipwrecks. To those few, it is not a matter of if they will taste death, only of whether they'll swallow.

If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.