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Quotes About Exploration

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
~ Seamus Heaney
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
~ Seamus Heaney
Over the waves, with the wind behind her and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird until her curved prow had covered the distance...
~ Seamus Heaney
So you drive on to the frontier of writing where it happens again.
~ Seamus Heaney
All I know is a door into the dark
~ Seamus Heaney
Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.
~ Seamus Heaney translation
It doesn't include math or logic, nor does it address issues of judgment, such as aesthetics or morality. Science has a simple goal: to figure out what the world actually is. Not all the possible ways it could be, nor the particular way it should be. Just what it is. There's
~ Sean Carroll
Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand–born experimental physicist who was as responsible as anyone for discovering the structure of the atom, once remarked that "all of science is either physics or stamp collecting.
~ Sean Carroll
I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.
~ Tim Kinsella
Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.
~ zelda popkin
Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.
~ Emma Donoghue
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
~ Fran Lebowitz
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
~ Joan Silber
I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.
~ Jonny Weston
Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.
~ Josh Charles
When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York.
~ Kiki Smith
I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.
~ Mat Kearney
Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.
~ Mick Jagger
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.
~ Paul Klee
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
~ Phylicia Rashad
One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'
~ Q-Tip
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
~ Richard Dawkins
By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos