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Exploration Quotes - Page 2

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Jules Verne (1993). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Completely Restored and Annotated Ed.”, Naval Inst Pr

We shall not cease from exploration

Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

The Titanic will protect itself.

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

Poul Anderson (2008). “The Van Rijn Method”, p.54, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

"Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.84, Yale University Press

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

Edward Forbes (1843). “Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology”

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

"'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.