Quotes About Exploration

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry is a terminal activity, taking place out near the end of things.

At the time of his second birthday, for example, a healthy child whose mother is resting on a garden seat will make a series of excursions away from her, each time returning to her before making the next excursion. On some occasions, when he returns, he simply smiles and makes his number; on others he leans against her knee; on yet others he wants to climb on her lap. But never does he stay for long unless he is frightened or tired or thinks she is about to leave.

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

us measure progress not by what is discovered but rather by the growing list of mysteries that remind us of how little we really know.

Stephen Hawking has estimated: "Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years. By that time we should have spread out into space, . . .

One of my favorites is "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

In the long term, Mars must be a stepping-stone to more distant destinations, because two adjacent planets could be simultaneously affected by the universe's more violent events, such as a nearby supernova.

But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.

that's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.

RIDLEY Science writer; founding chairman, International Centre for Life; author, The Rational Optimist

In 1900, Lord Kelvin, the great British physicist, put it clearly: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it," Albert Einstein

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.

They came to the Delectable Mountains.

Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while.

I am in love with this world. I have nestled lovingly in it. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings

To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

I have explored and have voluntarily entered into domains forbidden by a large fraction of those in our culture who are not curious, are not explorative and are not mentally equipped to enter these domains.