Quotes About Exploration

I poked a monk.

And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

on n'est pas forcément du pays où l'on est né. Il y a des grains que le vent aime semer ailleurs.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

Everyone was here to figure something out, not to get something right.

For Facebook and Twitter, we have endless amounts of money, But we haven't found anything there."

Outer space is everything.

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time. This difference makes finding latitude child's play, and turns the determination of longitude, especially at sea, into an adult dilemma—one that stumped the wisest minds of the world for the better part of human history.

The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Science explains everything. But if it doesn't it hasn't yet.

I will go in this way And find my own way out