Quotes About Exploration

This posed a dilemma, which Bill Knudsen summed up simply and succinctly. "Progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity," he said.

Again, our observations make it evident, not only that the earth is circular, but also that it is of no great size.

Bill Knudsen summed up simply and succinctly. "Progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity," he said. "If you are curious enough, you will not have any fear.

Het heeft weinig zin te blijven studeren op een plattegrond die je zelf hebt getekend.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

Arthur M. Winfield

idea of the latitude and longitude of Treasure Isle, which,

He dived deeper and deeper into his books; he had taken all obsolescence to be his province; in his disgust at the stupid usual questions, "Will it pay?" "What good is it?" and so forth, he would only read what was uncouth and useless.

I have always been fond of diving into Queer Street for my amusement, and I found my knowledge of that locality and its inhabitants very useful. It

I have been grinding away at facts for thirty years; it is time for fancies.

Perhaps he walked two miles between the high walls of the lane before its descent ceased, but he thrilled with the sense of having journeyed very far, all the long way from the known to the unknown.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment's idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that I had tracked a hundred times already, the great truth burst upon me, and I saw, mapped out in lines of light, a whole world, a sphere unknown; continents and islands, and great oceans in which no ship has sailed (to my belief) since a Man first lifted up his eyes and beheld the sun, and the stars of heaven, and the quiet earth beneath.

Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

True life is elsewhere

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

And, in the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead: Baudelaire is therefore first among seers, the king of poets, a true God .

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

When I was very young, I admired hardened criminals locked behind prison doors; I visited inns and taverns they frequented; with their eyes, I saw the blue sky and the blossoming work of the fields; I tracked their scent through cities. They were more powerful than saints, more prudent than explorers—and they, they alone, were witnesses to glory and reason!

I might be the child abandoned on the wharf setting out for the high seas, or the farmhand, following the path whose top reaches the sky.