Quotes About Exploration

The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. "Dracula" and "The Fly" may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.

When you had a set of wheels that could take you anywhere, you didn't walk away from it.

He remembered buying them for her. The two of them together at the farmers' market, wandering from stall to stall, buying bread rounds still warm from baking and bags of vegetables still thick with dirt and leaves. The way she managed to look at every display, ferreted out everything interesting, made people smile as she talked to them.

Susannah had a toy stethoscope, which she would press to his head, in an attempt to listen in on his thoughts.

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you.

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

You should consider traveling, spending some time seeing the world. It's best when you're young.

You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

Every page, top to bottom, right to left, like an automatic scanner.

There is a peculiar anonymity about being in tents. Once the zip is closed and the outside world barred from sight, all sense of location disappears.

and entered the main entrance to Ueno Park. Deciding to explore

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Mason had once driven that road all the way to Liberal, Kansas. Eight hours of seamless prairie, thinking about the pioneers who had dared to cross that land 150 years ago. There must have been moments when they looked in every direction, finding nothing to reveal where they were, where they'd been, or where they were going.

Things change as they are discovered.

You have to let go of something. And usually it's the thing that you're doing well at that moment. It's a courageous step into the unknown.

Are you . . . lost?" "Not really," she told him. "We just don't know where we're going.

You know what to do?" "Wander around," I said. "Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.

Every rock-face tells a story, every valley hides a secret. You can see time itself shaped in these rocks, if you look.

Join the Fleet, travel the galaxy, meet interesting new people and kill them.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

D/s can be dangerous, because it explores the most primitive sides of ourselves. Those involved must have a high degree of trust and very, very healthy devotion to one another. Like religion, it can be a spiritually enlightening experience, or it an expression of psychosis. And somewhere in between, it can be tremendously fun.