Quotes About Exploration

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.

I read the best of literature, science and philosophy

Genius must be the recovery of the powers of childhood by an act of the creative

Our subject: science and religion; the boundaries of scientific knowledge, the certainty that there are other kinds of knowing.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?

Ove godine proputovao sam pola svijeta i vidio sam toliko ljudi - ?ini mi se da sam vidio svakoga, osim mrtvih. A njih sam možda i tražio.

I am no earthling. I drink moonshine on Mars and mistake meteors for stars 'cause I can't hold my liquor. But I can hold my breath and ascend like wind to the black hole and play galaxophones on the fire escape of your soul.

If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.

Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible.

Wherever you set foot—on a street in Manhattan as you dodge traffic; on the soft, freshly turned earth of a Hudson Valley farm; on the kelpy tide line below a Maine cottage; or in the pine woods and palmetto thickets of the Carolina Low Country—do not forget that this was once frontier.

Scott Weidensaul

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

I go where the lizards tell me.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.) -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk.

Must we go tinkering about with Nature before we can enjoy it?

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.