Quotes About Exploration

I wanted miles to travel and absolutely no idea where I was going.

Nothing is ever over, nothing is ever ended, and worlds open up within the world we know.

If God so precisely and carefully and lovingly and amazingly constructed a mind-boggling habitat for His creatures, then it would be natural for Him to want them to explore it, to measure it, to investigate it, to appreciate it, to be inspired by it--and ultimately, and most importantly, to find Him through it.

Physicist Paul Davies 1 Would

We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking?

Comyn thought it was funny. It was very funny, indeed, that men making the second Big Jump in history, that men going faster and farther than any men but five had ever gone before, separated only by metal walls from the awfulness of infinity, should sit and play games with little plastic cards and pretend they were not where they were.

As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Do you usually go hiking? This weekend, take a tennis lesson. Do you bowl? Leave that to your buddies this time. Why? Because it will give you conversational fodder for the rest of your life.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Today we know that there are other solar systems only tens of light years away. Had the Golden Age continued unabated, we might by now have sent probes exploring them. We might have landed on the moon in the year 969 instead of 1969. We might have an understanding of space and life that is unimaginable to us today. Instead, events occurred that would delay the progress begun by the Greeks by a millennium.

It all began when the Beagle's previous captain, Pringle Stokes, shot himself in the head and, after the bullet didn't kill him, died of gangrene.

along with our responses to them, determine

Thomas Edison is often said to have advised, "To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

whenever we have a new idea—instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct.

According to the laws of chance, if you look around enough, you are bound to find something interesting.

the elasticity of our thinking allows us to move beyond the existing world of our senses and invent new concepts.

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me.

Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets.

Learning never exhaust the mind

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.