Quotes About Exploration

Me encantaba investigar lo que ocurría en el mundo... ella prefería ocuparse en perseguir las etéreas creaciones de los poetas. El mundo era para mí un secreto que deseaba desvelar... para ella era un espacio que deseaba poblar con sus propias imaginaciones.

In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A

Inventar, deve-se admitir humildemente, não consiste em criar algo do nada, mas sim do caos.

Si dice che Isaac Newton abbia confessato di sentirsi come un bambino che raccoglie conchiglie sulle rive dell'immenso e inesplorato oceano della verità.

I confess that neither the structure of the languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

Sin embargo, ¡cuántas cosas estamos a punto de descubrir si la cobardía y la dejadez no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

I shall quit your vessel on the ice-raft which brought me thither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile, and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch, who would create such another as I have been.

Cuántas cosas podríamos conocer si la cobardía y la pereza no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.

And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier, and the book had suddenly reached the stage – the wonderful moment to get to – where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created, and listen to people talking and watch them moving, all apparently independent of me.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind.

These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation.

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

shall quit your vessel on the ice-raft which brought me hither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile, and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch, who would create such another as I have been. I shall die.

I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the aerial creations of the poets. The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

We returned again, with torches;

We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile: a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs. We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.

Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.

Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs, and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed.

Morning, guys!! Today, I wandered a bit from the path of life...