Quotes About Exploration

The most remarkable leaps into the unknown are often not fully appreciated

Curiosity-driven research may seem self-indulgent and far from the immediate public good. However, essentially all of our current quality of life, for people living in the first world, has arisen from the fruits of such research, including all the electric power that drives almost every device we use. Two

escape the shackles of our prior experience to uncover profound and beautiful simplifications and predictions

The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Either way Reacher figured he might as well find out. He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.

He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.

No particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there.

We crossed the Avenue Bosquet against the light and then we made an arbitrary left into the Rue Jean Nicot. Joe stopped at a tabac and bought cigarettes. I would have smiled if I had been able to. The street was named after the guy who discovered nicotine.

Reacher remembered a line from an old song: Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

the meandering approach road. She saw the

You know where the word shrapnel comes from?" "Where?" "An eighteenth-century British guy named Henry Shrapnel." "Really?" "He was a captain in their artillery for eight years. Then he invented an exploding shell, and they promoted him to major. The Duke of Wellington used the shell in the Peninsular Wars, and at the Battle of Waterloo.

and was lost to sight. I turned around and got set to head

Route 66. She headed north and east on it. Reacher started singing to himself, about getting his kicks. Then he stopped. Berenson

Further On Up the Road." Bobby Bland

corresponding

I had rambling on my mind.

North Carolina Badlands

women passengers

He headed onward and found a living area and looked at a sofa. A big old thing. Three-seater, easy. Plus extravagant curlicued arms. Long enough.

The town explained itself to him, gradually, street by street.

that. There were some turns left and right, and there were some small stands of trees here and there, and there were

Norwich to Ipswich in Suffolk

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