Quotes About Exploration

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If the novel is an instrument of discovery, what it sets out to discover are bits of that still unsolvable and greatest of all great mysteries, human nature.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Imagination is the mighty instrument used by great scientists, artists, physicists, inventors, architects, and mystics. When the world said, It is impossible; it can't be done, the man with imagination said, It is done! Through your imagination, you can also penetrate the depths of reality and reveal the secrets of nature.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Don't go bigger, go deeper.

Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

I walk in and out of several worlds every day.

I thought my dance alone through worlds of odd and eccentric planets that no one else knew would sustain me.

Raw red cliffs that you stumbled down into your own shadow haven't kept you away, or soft red lights and strange electrical music that I play.

Be daring, take on anything. Don't labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life

if you blunder by accident into a secret it's like you've pushed open a door where you thought was just a wall. You can look through, if you're brave or reckless enough you can even step inside-taking a chance what you'll learn is worth what it costs.

On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky.

They were astronomers plotting the trajectories of stars.

Beyond Boothbay, beyond the fifth of July...?

How bizarre it seems to us, Hudson had been looking for a route to the Pacific Ocean, as his predecessor Christopher Columbus had been looking for a route to the East Indies . . . I thought The routes we think we are taking are not the routes we will take. The routes that take us. I

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

If we are not willing to risk what we have now, we will never find out what we could have.

You are reading while walking, she reads. You can't see your feet. The spread pages glide over the sidewalk, mottled by leaf shadows, by moonlight and streetlight. Over continents of shadow, continents of light. The book is a bird with white wings. You are a bird. Reading, you can fly. You are flying now.