Exploration Quotes

451 Exploration quotes by 356 unique authors

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. That’s why people… — Jon Krakauer
Since I’ve known you, you’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
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. “No,” he snarled. Madison wasn’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 well—and more, because their… — Dean Koontz

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