Quotes About Exploration

NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like." --Dangerous by Shannon Hale

Raven was asking Apple to give up all known paths forever after. To lose everything that was known and safe. To spend her entire life on unfamiliar paths and wind-beaten cliffs. Every day uncertain, dangerous, treading water in a well with no guarantee of a Happily Ever After.

Her eyes followed the long road that began south of the Great City

Sometimes things aren't impossible the first time I try, because I don't know they're impossible yet.

Everything is possible and nothing is not possible except possibly the impossible.

Wonderland, Maddie had yet to see

Nothing is quite right, or everything would be quite boring.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

During the toddler years, a lot of action takes place at the toilet. No, not potty training; throwing things in. From a toddler's viewpoint, the commode is one of the best toys around.

In every moment of the day, in the middle of any day, I can become newly engaged with the world. Newly competent. There's so much to discover! I can still become something I am not.

Books are like paper windows into other worlds, aren't they, Uncle Stephen?" she asked

A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

As a child, he'd peered at the camera, as if trying to see into it, to its engineering

I have eaten brains, my tongue loves to probe the delicate folds

Perhaps I will someday. When there is nothing left in my own world that pleases me.' 'Then you will never visit, for you are a girl who will always find pleasure in something.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

We learn from continual practice, but exercises need variety in order to solicit new responses.

But there is very little emphasis within our educational systems on the education of the imagination, which requires sustained encounters with uncertainty.

But there was a lot of happiness discovering so many small things in unexpected places.

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

those students who are exposed to many different experiences and beliefs learn far more than those who are not.

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey ' which is like candy.

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.