British parliament Quote by Dava Sobel

“We travel abroad to discover in distant lands something whose presence at home has become unrecognisable.”

— Michel de Certeau

“Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere.”

— Saru Singhal

“the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to…

— Elyne Mitchell

At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The…

— Edwin Powell Hubble

“The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life. The”

— Louise Penny

“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out…

— Tahir Shah

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from…

— Paul-Emile Victor

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“...by admitting a new perception of space and giving it an active sense, is it not possible to discover a new unexpected, unexplored world?”

— toru takemitsu

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a…

— Elizabeth Knox

Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance,…

— Benjamin Thompson