Quotes About Exploration

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

The great gray-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees.

Who hath desired the sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded.

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.

There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,Or the way of a man with a maid;But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the seaIn the heel of the Northeast Trade.

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside!

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

The biggest scientific delusion of all is that science already knows the answers. The details still need working out but, in principle, the fundamental questions are settled.

I am more interested in dogs than in dogmas. Obviously

The best kind of walk, and this applies to the plains as well as to the hills, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards.

It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere

I am most at home in small places—Shamli and Saharanpur; Darjeeling and Dehra; Karnal and Kasauli; Meerut and Mussoorie….These are the places I know best, and where I have found my friends and heroes, and my stories.

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You