Exploration Quotes

451 quotes by 356 authors

What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of… — Daniel Dennett
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact,… — Freeman Dyson
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. — Carl Sagan
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We… — Carl Sagan
And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage… — Shane Koyczan
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic… — Carl Sagan
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that… — Victor Hugo
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
His lips hovered over hers. â€œNo,â€ he snarled. Madison wasnâ€™t sure to whom he was talking, but then his mouth was crushing hers, and her… — Unknown Author
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is… — Thomas Mann
Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see. — Penn Jillette
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage… — Carl Sagan
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have… — Margaret Mead
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as wellâ€”and more, because their… — Dean Koontz
But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required… — James Cameron
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality… — John W. Gardner
We shall not cease from exploration — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the… — John Hope Franklin
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and… — Unknown Author

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