Exploration Quotes

451 quotes by 356 authors

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. — John Archibald Wheeler
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to… — Thornton Wilder
We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe… — Fred Wilson
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration,… — Julian Baggini
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. — Hanna Rosin
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve… — Larry Niven
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be… — Henry David Thoreau
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. — E L Doctorow
In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in… — Harold Brodkey
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. — Chuck Palahniuk
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that… — Daisaku Ikeda
Every exploration is an appropriation. — Roland Barthes
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. Thatâ€™s why people… — Jon Krakauer
Since Iâ€™ve known you, youâ€™ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given… — Megan McCafferty
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously… — Carl Sagan

Who Wrote These Exploration Quotes

356 authors contributed a total of 451 Exploration Quotes, led by these top contributors: