Quotes About Exploration

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

There is nothing we need to do that isn't dangerous.

Whereas what we need is to fumble around in the darkness, because that's where our lives (not necessarily all of the time, but at least some of the time, and particularly when life gets problematical for us) takes place.

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

Nuda plus uwaga = zaczyna by? ciekawie.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

I simply will never stop learning because I don´t want to tie myself just to one way of making a living.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

A good question is never answered.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)