Quotes About Exploration

I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. It's not got electricity or anything.

I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

As a theoretician, I am proud to be part of a counter revolution... discovering that quantum field theory language was not dead and finished but had not really been explored thoroughly enough.

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

When I was in Greenough, Montana, I came across a bear cub. I was off this path, and I thought, If there's a bear cub, that means there's a mother bear somewhere nearby. So I doubled back. If I'd kept going, I'm sure they would have eventually found my sneakers, and that's about it.

I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.