Quotes About Exploration

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." He also believed that learning had purpose, stating, "The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

artists know to look deeper than just surface beauty. They dig for what's underneath the underneath

I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

A time of open scientific and technical experimentation, the period 1963 to 1969 was considered the "golden years" of AI.

After all, it's natural for humans, isn't it? To want to learn. Being curious, wanting answers: that's the way we are.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tideIs a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,And a gray mist on the sea's face and a gray dawn breaking.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads forth.

Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find No highway more, no track, all being blind, The way to go shall glimmer in the mind. Though you have conquered Earth and Charted Sea And planned the courses of all Stars that be, Adventure on, more wonders are in Thee. Adventure on, for from the littlest clue Has come whatever worth man ever knew; The next to lighten all men may be you . . .

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

While Piroo and the Jemadar went round the town completing their purchases

All travel is, after all, a journey in time & in mind.... physical landscapes are a mirror of, or perhaps a key into, our inner landscape.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to say hello. On the beach, I could have stopped all day long and looked at those damned shells, looked for all the messages that come not in bottles but in shells...

It doesn't matter that something you've done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

It seemed possible that one or both of these books might change my life.