Quotes About Exploration

We got a course in picknicking at the university, said Dr. Bourbon. It's called Geology, but it's really picknicking.

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and to be willing to challenge their own preconceptions.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell. I say trick but what I really mean is challenge, because it's a very hard thing to do.

They spent their first night in America sleeping on the floor of a tavern on Mulberry Street, in Manhattan's Little Italy. Then they ventured west, eventually finding jobs in a slate quarry ninety miles west of the city near the town of Bangor, Pennsylvania. The following year, fifteen Rosetans left Italy

Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from

Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick a blanket This is an example of what's called a "divergence test

Louis and Regina found a tiny apartment on Eldridge Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, for $8 a month. Louis then took to the streets, looking for work. He saw peddlers and fruit sellers and sidewalks crammed with pushcarts. The noise and activity and energy dwarfed what he had known in the Old World. He was first overwhelmed, then invigorated. He went

when explorers began traveling across oceans and undertaking bold expeditions in previously unknown territory, an entirely new kind of encounter emerged. Cortés and Montezuma wanted to have a conversation, even though they knew nothing about the other. When

But it is an advance that has nothing to do with taking more pictures, or taking better pictures. It has to do with going beyond the picture.

British Columbia, the genteel Siberia, that was neither genteel nor a Siberia, but an undiscovered, perhaps an undiscoverable Paradise

This ought to be about the place, if Alcapancingo's over there, Hugh said, where Bernal Díaz and his Tlaxcalans got across to beat up Quauhnahuac. Superb name for a dance band: Bernal Díaz and his Tlaxcalans...Or didn't you get around to Prescott at the University of Hawaii?

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

I haven't failed, I have just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance!

Engineer possibility into greatness

To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams!

Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.